Re: How best get rid of SELinux?

On Friday 21 September 2007, Andy Green wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
# touch /.autorelabel

and a reboot. This will make sure your files have the right selinux
label, the cause of many problems.

With all due respect Andy, I probably did that 6 or 7 times. Not once did
it actually fix a problem.

Well that will only fix "a problem" whose cause is a simple mislabelling
or lack of the selinux label. That has happened to me in the past
upgrading machines with old Fedora versions or ones with filesystems
that had previously been used with selinux=0. You can also make the
kind of problem this will fix by copying files, say from /var/www/html
to /home and then mv-ing them back. If your problem is different or
more subtle then naturally it won't help.

Maybe I have been lucky, but I have been able to figure out how to get
around whatever selinux has complained about to me recently. Only once
did it need a local policy, to get gitweb working.

So because that has been my experience, which I can see has been
different to yours I accept, I am more positive about trying to get it
working.

-Andy

Just for grins, Andy, I fired up my lappy which has been running with
selinix=0 since the F7 install, did the touch /.autorelabel, then let it
update to the latest with smart. That will install a newer kernel which I
haven't built an ndiswrapper for just yet, but will reboot and do that. It
will be interesting to see if I still have a network connection through my
bcm4318 radio when its all done. I'll remove the grub option and set it to
permissive before I do the final reboot.

Ok, an hour later its all done, rebooted to permissive, relabeled (took about
half an hour right there) ndiswrapper-1.48 installed. And by golly its still
working, kdenetwork manager says the connection speed sucks, but I had to go
get the newest flash for seamonkey and that came in only about 10k slower
than my dsl connection. The log is showing me a bunch of what I think are
bcm4318 related messages that look like stack traces, but it is running
despite that. The messages are from:

b43-phy0 ERROR: LO control pair validation failed (I: 111, Q: 111, used 1,
calib: 0, initing: 0)

And seemingly generated when b43 attempts to set the local oscillator. Or is
that b43's way of bitching about the radio channel? DamnifIknow.

Anybody got a clue to lend me? Latest F7 kernel but I saw it on the previous
one before I rebooted to the new one too.

I left this message sitting on screen, and went to do some shopping for eats,
then went to the shop to cut the last two mortises in a side rail for a
cabinet, and when I came back in just now, the last such messages showing in
the messages tail were slightly different, but still generated a stack trace,
naming rfatt=6, bbatt=5, and was at 15:42 pm, its now 20:01. Self repairing?

So, ATM I have not run into an selinux problem while running in permissive but
live mode.

Progress at making it more 'user friendly'? Perhaps. I'll leave it setup as
now & see how I fare trying to do my usual stuffs.

Maybe it will actually be usable when I install F8 on this box.

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Cheers, Gene
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