From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i88McWrT008037 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:38:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i88McVfe006977 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:38:31 GMT Received: from lkcl.net (host81-152-10-162.range81-152.btcentralplus.com [81.152.10.162]) by open.hands.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3767CBFCC for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:38:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from lkcl by lkcl.net with local (Exim 4.24) id 1C5BG9-00027c-8M for selinux@tycho.nsa.gov; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:49:49 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:49:49 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: SE-Linux Subject: at last: info regarding boot problems on multiple partitions Message-ID: <20040908224949.GK7717@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov FINALLY i got a useable system when i encountered a boot problem [well, i got a console login]. the issue is that partitions fail to be mounted. i had noticed over a period of time that programs like pump and dhclient and some others would stop partitions from being unmounted during shutdown. [remember i have /boot, /, /usr, /var and /home] for some reason, this also caused the partitions to fail to MOUNT on startup. just now i was able to log in. audit2allow shows these: allow local_login_t file_t:dir { search } allow rpcd_t file_t:dir { search }. and, sure enough, doing a ls -Z /usr shows that it is, in fact, set to file_t. the question is, therefore... why? i figure it must be because i have that partition mounted. consequently, the context of the mount point, /usr, never gets set to a correct context because, of course, make relabel is only ever run with all partitions mounted. so. my question is: how do i restore the context of a mount-point.... whilst it's actually mounted! l. -- -- Truth, honesty and respect are rare commodities that all spring from the same well: Love. If you love yourself and everyone and everything around you, funnily and coincidentally enough, life gets a lot better. -- lkcl.net
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