On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Joe Zeff joe@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