On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
> Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or
^D to enter default
> mode.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue)
> sulogin: /root: change directory failed: Permission denied
Thank you. Whenever I see a question like that with no explanation I get
suspicious that somebody's trying to be a cargo cult sysadmin, trying a
drastic "solution" that they don't understand because "it worked ten
years
ago."
You might try booting from a LiveCD, chrooting and running restorecon on
/root. And, while I'm thinking about it, why does your boot process need to
log in as root? Is this something normal that I've never noticed, or
something odd?
Thanks, Joe. I do not know why it tries to login as root -- my
installation is merely a F18 clean installation. I strongly believe
that the problem I am experiencing is being caused by the new selinux
update.
Is there some way of disabling selinux in the emergency mode and
getting the machine booting without selinux active?
Paul
Paul