2.6.20-1.2985.fc7 won't boot -- Fails to start INIT

[Will Woods]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 07:57 -0700, Tom London wrote:
> On 3/14/07, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
> > ons, 14 03 2007 kl. 00:24 -0700, skrev Miles Lane:
> > > My machine is a HP dv1240us.
> > > 2.6.20-1.2981.fc7 boots fine.
> > > I tried changing the ROOT=UUID... to ROOT=/dev/sda6, but that didn't help.
> >
> > Yep, I'm seeing that as well, kernel-2.6.20-1.2982.fc7 boots fine for
> > me.. Time to hit bugzilla.
> >
> > - David Nielsen
> >
> I have this problem with almost any kernel installed after .2982
> (including .2970, for example).
> 
> Problem with nash or mkinitrd?

As far as I can tell, it's actually a problem with the SELinux policy.
There's no /lib/ld-linux.so.2 on the initrd because the new policy
denies ldconfig permission to create the softlink in the tempdir. 

No ld-linux.so.2, no nash. No nash, no boot.

Cracking open the initrd and adding the softlink allows the system to
boot normally. 

You could probably also get around this by rolling back to an older
selinux-policy-targeted and re-running mkinitrd. It's probably easiest
just to wait for a fixed selinux-policy-targeted package, though.

-w
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