FC12+selinux+dump/restore

John Austin ja at jaa.org.uk
Wed Mar 24 20:49:43 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:33 +0000, T. Horsnell wrote:
> Sorry people, I've just found a likely reference in Bugzilla.
> Please ignore the stuff below for now...
> Terry
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I'm using the Live version of FC12 to produce a bootable clone of an idle FC12
> > system to a USB stick. One step involves using 'dump' to dump the contents of the
> > idle root fiesystem and piping the result to 'restore', to build the stick
> > copy of root. This all basically works, except that restore moans about a bunch
> > of files during the restoration process with things like:
> > 
> > /var/cache/fontconfig/xxxxx: EA set.security.selinux.system_u:object_r:fonts_cache_t:s0 failed: Invalid argument
> > 
> > The disk-based system originally had selinux disabled, and when I tried the dump
> > of that, I got thousands of restore errors. I then booted up the disk-based system,
> > set selinux to permissive and let it relabel the files. After that, restore only
> > produced the current bunch of errors. selinux on the live system runs in enforcing/targeted,
> > but the problem still occurs if I set it to permissive/targeted (by editing /etc/selinux/config
> > as there is no option for this in the Administration menu on the live system)
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Terry
> > 
> > 
> 

Hi Terry
Have you seen this one which I think maybe similar but
not the same?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2964667&group_id=1306&atid=101306

John






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