Fedora upgrade, got unbootable system

[Dov Grobgeld]

Thanks for the links. All I needed was:

chcon -t home_root_t /home/dov

Dov

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 17:41, Meir Kriheli <mkriheli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2012/4/18 Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>
>
>> Thanks for the help last time. In the end I reinstalled Fedora 16 on a
>> new partition. Though I have solved most issues I still have the problem
>> that when I log in I get the following strange interaction:
>>
>> prompt> ssh dov at localhost
>> Last login: Wed Apr 18 17:16:28 2012 from localhost.localdomain
>> Could not chdir to home directory /home/dov: Permission denied
>> prompt> cd
>> prompt> pwd
>> /home/dov
>>
>> I.e. I initially get a permission denied, but when cd'ing it doesn't
>> affect me. Could it be a SELinux issue?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dov
>>
>>
> We recently had a similar discussion at whatsup (sharing home partition
> between Fedora and Ubuntu), which might be relevant to your case.
>
> So:
>
> 1. Ensure the user id is the same (i.e: matches the user id who's the
> owner of the directory).
> 2. You might need to relabel the files under the home partition (or they
> may have the wrong security context with SELinux).
>
> See:
>
> http://whatsup.org.il/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=384300#384300
>
>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:50, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, 11 בApril 2012 21:46:57 Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>>> > modprobe[133]: FATAL: Could not load
>>> > /lib/modules/3.3.1-3.fc16.i686/modules.dep: No such file or directory
>>> > mount[95]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'binfmt_misc'
>>> >
>>> > Checking /lib/modules/3.3* shows that it indeed does not contain any
>>> > modules.dep file. Should it? Is there perhaps a change to Linux 3.3 so
>>> it
>>> > no longer uses that file?
>>>
>>> Use 'depmod' to re-generate it:
>>>  depmod -a
>>>
>>> Then reboot, and see what other failures you have.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
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