Jonathan Allen wrote:
Hi All,
I have a stupid F7 box that won't boot. It keeps wittering about a clutch of selinux errors:
udevd-event[1187]: selinux_setfscreatecon: matchpathcon(/dev/loop3) failed
and screenfuls of similar garbage. Then it tells me that an error occured during the file system check - which it didn't. I give the root password and run fsck and there are no errors. Reboot simply goes back into the same loop. I can't edit /etc/selinux/config to disable selinux because the filestore is read-only and the live CD doesn't seem to want to let me mount the hard-disc to edit it that way.
How can I return the machine to some kind of sanity without reinstalling ? This feels scarily like the monster from Redmond ...
Jonathan
You can disable selinux to let you boot and relabel. When you get the boot screen, hit a key so you get the boot menu. Then highlight the first Linux entry, (up/down arrows) and hit e (for edit). Then highlight the line that starts with kernel, and hit e again. Then add selinux=0 to the end of the line. Hit b (for boot) and the system should come up. From there you can deside if you want to disable selinux, or relabel the system so selinux works correctly.
Mikkel