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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] SELinux conversion questions
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:00:22
Message-Id: 530AA7B1.9040003@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] SELinux conversion questions by Erik Mackdanz
1 On 02/23/2014 06:18 PM, Erik Mackdanz wrote:
2 > I'm attempting to convert my laptop to SELinux using the conversion
3 > guide, and I've run into a few snags with documentation. I've consulted
4 > the troubleshooting page, archives and forums, and now am reaching out
5 > directly.
6 >
7 > 1) When I get to the world update ('emerge -uDN world'), every package
8 > fails at install with 'Failed to set SELinux security labels.' Don't I
9 > also need 'FEATURES="-selinux"' for that step (like the preceding step)?
10 >
11 I am fairly sure FEATURES=selinux is pretty important at this step; this
12 is where you are re-installing all packages with SELinux support, and
13 the security labels are supposed to be set.
14
15 I had the same problem, though, on a recent conversion. In my case, the
16 problem was emerge was using python3, but the selinux module only exists
17 for python2. Try setting python2.7 as your default interpreter, or
18 re-emerge portage with USE=python2. The latter is what I did and now
19 everything works fine.
20
21 --
22 ♫Dustin
23 http://dustin.hatch.name/

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] SELinux conversion questions Erik Mackdanz <erikmack@×××××.com>