FC4 error?

[Paul Howarth]

Hongwei Li wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just deleted all old partitions, created new partitions and installed a
> fresh FC4 system.  The installation did not show any error.  After the
> installation, I reboot it.  During the booting process, I saw an error message
> after "Setting hostname xxx: [OK]" as:
> 
> Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock mkdir failed, read-only
> filesystem
> 
> Then, other booting processes pass through. Now, the system is running, I can
> access it using ssh, httpd is working.  However, when I start dovecot (I did
> not change /etc/dovecot.conf), it failed:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap:                                     [FAILED]
> 
> I turn the service dovecot on, then reboot.  I saw the error message as above
> and the new error:
> 
> Starting service dovecot failed: can't use SSL certificate ...
> /etc/pki/dovecot/dovecot.pem permission denied
> 
> (it went through so fast that I can't catch all the words).  If I start
> dovecot manually, it is ok:
> 
> # /usr/sbin/dovecot
> # ps xa | grep dov
>  2622 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot
>  2624 ?        S      0:00 dovecot-auth
> 
> The system logs don't show anything related to dovecot, nor the message
> ".../var/lock mkdir failed..."
> 
> I update the kernel from 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 to 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4, reboot, but
> got the same error messages as before.
> 
> Can somebody tell me what's wrong with the installation and the system?  Are
> the above two error messages related each other?  Will the error "/var/lock
> mkdir failed" cause any other problems?
> 
> If I turn off selinux, then I can start service dovecot:
> 
> # setenforce 0
> # /etc/init.d/dovecot start
> Starting Dovecot Imap:                                     [  OK  ]
> 
> and it creates an entry /var/lock/subsys/dovecot.  However, when I reboot the
> system, the same problems and errors show up again.  It seems that it is
> related to selinux.  I am using targeted, enforcing selinux and has the policy
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.16-6 installed from the FC4 CDs.
> 
> How to solve the problem?  Thanks a LOT!

The latest selinux-policy-targeted errata package contains some dovecot 
fixes. Try updating that and see if things improve.

Paul.