Re: reindexing time for SELinux?

["Seth D. Guikema" <sguikema@jhu.edu>]

I just rebooted, and the box seems to be working fine. It seems to have 
hung in the shutdown sequence. The files were relabeled successfully 
when I rebooted the box. Thank you all.
Seth

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:21 -0500, Seth D. Guikema wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to set up SELinux on my Fedora Core 7 workstation. I am 
>> using the pre-installed GUI SELinux configuration tool in FC7. I 
>> selected a targeted set-up. I was warned that the workstation would need 
>> to reindex the files at the next reboot and that this would take a 
>> while. I clicked ok. I rebooted the workstation Saturday morning at 
>> about 10am. It is still unresponsive (and not available for remote 
>> connections) and working hard this morning, almost 48 hours later. How 
>> long should reindexing take? The workstation is new. It has 2 1TB disks 
>> (RAID mirrored), but there isn't much on them yet - perhaps 30MB plus 
>> the OS and other programs installed by the manufacturer (ASL). Does 
>> reindexing really take this long? This is my first attempt at SELinux, 
>> and any help is appreciated. Thank you.
>>     
>
> I assume you mean relabeling rather than reindexing.  It shouldn't take
> that long.  Are you getting output on the console?
>
> Try rebooting into single-user mode in permissive mode and relabeling
> from there, e.g. boot with 'enforcing=0 single' and run 'fixfiles
> relabel' (and remove /.autorelabel if it still exists), then reboot
> normally.
>
>   

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