The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 16, 2013 2:58 UTC (Wed) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience by nirik
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Thanks, done! Wow, that was easy. My DVD drive died since installing Fedora 17, so I was hoping that there'd be such a simple upgrade process for 18.

However, I did encounter a problem: after asking for my disk password, systemd only decrypts my / partition, not my /home, which caused a cascading effect and dropped me into an emergency shell.

Running journalctl showed the original problem as:

Jan 15 18:05:45 titanic systemd-tty-ask-password-agent[527]: open(/run/systemd/ask-password/ask.jgeHtn): Permission denied

I was very impressed with journalctl's verbose output, but it didn't tell me where "ask.jgeHtn" was created (or destroyed, since 'ls' did not find it from the emergency shell). So I had no way to get more detailed information about what was going on.

In the end, I disabled selinux (that's the fix for "Permission Denied" as root, right? ;)) and typed 'systemctl default' to continue booting, which is okay for now. Later I will see how to fix my policy properly.

What is the proper channel to report this?

(Log in to post comments)

The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 16, 2013 4:47 UTC (Wed) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link]

That's a temporary file that is renamed later on to the real name. Sounds like an selinux AVC, and should be reported on rhbz against the selinux-policy package.

The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience

Posted Jan 17, 2013 13:20 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> My DVD drive died since installing Fedora 17

You can simply dd the ISO to a USB flash drive and boot from it. I have not tested with Fedora 18 yet, but it has worked that way for several releases.