From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>, SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: at last: info regarding boot problems on multiple partitions
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:43:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909234320.GA7328@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909183823.GJ10046@lkcl.net>
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:38:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:33:47AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:49, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> > > 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.
> Mounting local filesystems...
> SeLinix: initialized (dev hda1, type ext2) uses xattr
> same for hda6
> same for hda7
>
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda6 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw)
>
>
> .... not a sausage about /dev/hda5!!!
okay, it was as i kind-of expected - that audit banning
write access of /bin/touch to /etc was wot done it.
that check is done in /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs.sh - it's a very
awful hack to check that /etc/mtab is on a writeable filesystem.
rather than check the file itself, mountvirtfs.sh checks that
the subdirectory is writeable - by attempting to touch it!
[which is of course banned under the selinux policy]
consequently, the test fails, and only if the test _succeeds_ does
mountvirtfs.sh delete /etc/mtab. (with :> $MTAB_PATH)
so, as a temporary hack, i removed the "if dir_writable ${MTAB_PATH%/*}"
check.
result?
/etc/mtab gets deleted.
result?
/usr doesn't end up looking like it's still mounted (read-only in the
case of the prior shutdown...]
result?
/usr always gets mounted.
what an arse.
bugreporting time.
l.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-08 22:49 at last: info regarding boot problems on multiple partitions Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 12:22 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-09-09 13:10 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 16:33 ` Russell Coker
2004-09-09 17:30 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 17:35 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 18:38 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 23:43 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-09-11 16:20 ` Russell Coker
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