On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> By running journalctl, I got the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kernel: ata1.00 exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x0 kernel:
>>>>>> ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x24 kernel: ata1.00: failed command: READ
>>>>>> DMA EXT
>>>>>
>>>>> ata1.00 is your first hard disk
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Reindl. I only have one hard disk in my computer, which runs
>>>> only Fedora 18.
>>>
>>> As a consequence of this problem, I cannot boot my computer. This
>>> problem occurred after the last updates, which included
>>> selinux-policy.
>>
>> i doubt that HARDWARE errors have anything to do with selinux-policy
>
> Thanks again, Reindl. By using smartctl, I get a message similar to the one
> below:
>
> Error 18 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 12126 hours (505 days + 6
> hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was
> active or idle.
>
Boot your machine with enforcing=0 on the kernel line. If you still have the
problem, then it is probably not SELinux. If it works, then I would try to
relabel.
Thanks, Daniel. I have meanwhile overcome the problem by re-installing
Fedora. Now, everything seems to be working perfectly.
By the way,
enforcing=0
was to be placed in the line that starts with the word
'linux',
right?
How can one do the relabeling?
Paul