I was trying to learn a bit about SELinux on my Ubuntu 14.04 and did not realize that it already had AppArmor which SELinux un-installs during its own installation process.
I installed two packages selinux-utils and selinux (in that order). During the installation of selinux I was promoted to reboot in the bash shell. When I hit the enter key it proceeded further and said some post installation script failed.
I then tried to reboot and the initial error was / being a read-only partition. So I went into Grub and edited the ro parameter to the kernel and changed it to rw. After it was able to create a directory /selinux but now I am getting a different error which I captured below (this is from trying to boot into single user mode)
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... /sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy: No such device
Warning: SELinux policy load failed, continuing
mount: mounting none on /selinux failed: No such device
Warning: Unable to mount /selinux
done.
There are some further messages related to plymouth-upstart-bridge. Finally there is one more error message (not sure if this is related to SELinux)
[drm:intel_set_pch_fifo_underrun_reporting [i915]] *ERROR* uncleared fifo underrun on pch transcoder
I am guessing now the problem is this line mount: mounting none on /selinux failed: No such device
From my grub I can see that / is on (hd0,5) and there is an selinux directory under /. What I cannot understand is whether selinux is trying to mount some device to /selinux or does it think that /selinux should be a device by itself?
Any help will be appreciated.
