Re: [Mondo-devel] EXT3/LVM Failure

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Bill Ott said on Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:19:23PM -0700:

> Bruno, sorry for my confusion.  Yes the failure is on the archive not 
> the restore.  AND it is SELinux. I set the mode to "Permissive" instead 
> of "Enforcing". I then  ran  my mondoarchive script,  made a cd, then 
> successfully restored the system to a blank hardfile. It worked 

Ok, so it gives you a workaround at least.

> perfectly.  There are a number of routines that use the temp file that 
> is created. by "lvm vgdisplay > /tmp/tempfile". This creates an empty 
> file when SELinux is "Enforcing".  It would be less efficient, but  a 

That's really stupid IMHO ! Is there any place where we can write in
Enforcing mode ? Would the MINDI_TMP dir which is created by mindi more
suitable ? To test it, apply the 2 following patches
http://trac.mondorescue.org/changeset/1486
http://trac.mondorescue.org/changeset/1487

Report If it works.
Bruno
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