After removing selinux, warnings while booting

[Adna rim]

After removing selinux on Ubuntu Hardy I keep getting lots of Warnings while booting like:
can't mount /selinux
failed to chroot /loadpolicy...
and so ...

[Caleb Case (calebcase)]

The scripts that are added to the initramfs are not deleted on a 'remove'. They are on a purge however (dpkg -P selinux).

I've attached a patch that deletes the initramfs scripts when selinux is removed.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:10:42AM -0000, Caleb Case wrote:
> I've attached a patch that deletes the initramfs scripts when selinux is
> removed.

Hmm, I think a Debian-policy-safer way to handle this might be to alter
the initramfs script to detect if selinux is enabled or not (to avoid
the warnings), similar to how init.d scripts check that the daemon is
still installed. We should not remove things from /etc if a user hasn't
done a "purge".

--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

[Adna rim (adnarim)]

@Caleb Case: thanks for pointing me to the problem!

@Kees Cook: Can you specify an extra postrm for purging? Because removing these entries isn't enough. You still have to execute update-initramfs -u. If that shouldn't be possible we end up with a package which effects can't totally be deinstalled with apt-get purge or?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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