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On 01/28/2013 03:20 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
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
touch /.autorelabel; reboot
Will cause a relabel at boot, although not necessary now.
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