Re: after rsync restore - cannot login

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:10:33 -0700
Kevin Kempter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All;

I did a backup of a test Fedora 10 install as follows:

1) installed Fedora 10 and applied no updates

2) booted into single user mode and as root ran this:

rsync -av <dir> /stage/backup

I wrapped the above rsync command in a script where <dir> is replaced
with the root (/) dir's I want backed up. Basically everything
except the following:

/proc
/dev
/sys
/stage


Then I rebooted, and ran a yum update, installed a new kernel, many
packages, etc


Then as a test I booted back into single user mode and as root ran
this:

rsync -av --delete /stage/backup/<dir> /

again the above command was in a script where <dir> was replaced with
the same list of root (/) dirs as I used for the backup

once complete I rebooted and now I cannot login, I get to a login
screen but a login just takes me back to the login screen again.

I booted into single user mode, and ran init 3
at the login prompt I tried to login as root and some text flashes by
the screen too quickly to read however I did catch the phrase
'permission denied'

What have I done wrong ?

You need to use -X with rsync to preserve the selinux extended
attributes on files. You probibly also want -A for acls.

Right now you should be able to touch /.relabel on the machine and
reboot and it should go through and fix all the selinux lables and
hopefully let you login.


Thanks in advance...


kevin

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