From 6c03f770b86348ec3ce8283e3df245cb22b716e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:22:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] v2v: Add note about RHEL 4 conversions hanging during SELinux relabelling. (cherry picked from commit d4ab702dad39fe1f609ee17661f6bfa3a11dee31) --- v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod index 2e49fbf..e3f97f2 100644 --- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod +++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod @@ -618,6 +618,25 @@ below. Windows Drivers are installed from /usr/share/virtio-win if present +=head1 RHEL 4 + +=head2 SELinux relabel appears to hang forever + +In RHEL E 4.7 there was a bug which causes SELinux relabelling +to appear to hang forever at: + + *** Warning -- SELinux relabel is required. *** + *** Disabling security enforcement. *** + *** Relabeling could take a very long time, *** + *** depending on file system size. *** + +In reality it is waiting for you to press a key (but there is no +visual indication of this). You can either hit the C<[Return]> key, +at which point the guest will finish relabelling and reboot, or you +can install policycoreutils E 1.18.1-4.13 before starting the v2v +conversion. See also +L + =head1 WINDOWS =head2 Boot failure: 0x0000007B -- 1.8.3.1