Re: system gets stuck in a lock during boot

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 11:14:20 EST


On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 07:53 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:42 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> >> o.k. applied your patch, but unfortunantly
> >> I still am hitting this kernel panic.
> >>
> >> must admit I have no idea why this is doing this.
> >> (but am willing to sit through this, because eventually
> >> sooner or later will hit this if I update gcc).
> >>
> >
> > But the panic you showed was that it could not find an init to execute.
> > Which looks like a setup issue and not a kernel bug.
> >
> > -- Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> That's whats getting me, i.g. if I compile
> sysvinit normally without adding an SELinux patch
> the system boots, as soon as I compile sysvinit with
> SELinux support to load the policy, bam... I hit this.
>
> I can send a post to SELinux and see what they think,
> and the go from there.

Oh! It's an SELinux thing. It probably prevents you from executing
init ;-)

-- Steve


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