Fedora 9 in a VM (not booting) – its selinux again

The scenario is that I created a VM using VMware workstation 6 – allocated 30GB of space and then allowed the installation to complete. All looked well until I rebooted the VM.

During the boot sequence it stopped at the /etc/fstab stage and would not respond. The solution lead to wonder why more people hadn’t seen it.

A little bit of background. Some time ago I was migrating a SCO based application to Red Hat ES 4 on Dell hardware. During a conversation with Dell over an issue with Redhat – the technicial mentioned to me to disable the Selinux option. I asked why and the techie said “It works better – less problems – if you don’t need it – turn it off). So we did.

I did a bit of research and found

Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an implementation of a mandatory access control mechanism. This mechanism is in the Linux kernel, checking for allowed operations after standard Linux discretionary access controls are checked.

which was not required in that particular project.

So when my latest problem occured I happened upon some information that suggested you could disable the selinux option through grub and editing the boot string used to start the VM.

Heck what have I got to lose I thought. So pressing a key during boot gets me into grub – e allows me to edit the string and using the down arrow I select the last part of the boot string and add selinux=disable and then press b to boot.

Lo and behold it boots and then I can use the System / Administration / Selinux to change the settings (in my case to off).

Error 1718. File was rejected by digital signature policy – problem installing VMware server »« Application off the screen ?

Application off the screen ?

When working with multiple monitors you may come across this problem

You start an application and part of it is off the screen. Not a problem if you can get to the applications top window bar and move it back to where you want it.

What you do is right-click on the item in the taskbar and click on Move on the context menu. After this, press the arrow keys (I usually press the down arrow key but any of them will work), then move your mouse. You will find that the shadow box of the window in question is now being “dragged” by your mouse. Place it where you want on your screen by moving the mouse and then clicking the left mouse button. It will then stay there from now on.

Fedora 9 in a VM (not booting) – its selinux again »« Captain – We cannae go any faster – The Tubes Are Clogged !!

Captain – We cannae go any faster – The Tubes Are Clogged !!

Another About: option for Chrome I’d heard about was about:internets.

Allegedly this shows an Easter Egg from the development team.

However I suspect its either over subscribed or disabled because trying this today gives a blank screen and best of all – a tab entitled “The Tubes are Clogged!” Which strikes a chord since I have a very heavy cold at the moment.

Priceless….

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