Upgrade to Fedora 12 & SELinux Relabeling

[lujate]

I upgraded from Fedora 10 to 12 using the i386 ISO image. The upgrade finished without incident but the system fails to start. It stalls at this point:
*** Warning -- SELinux targeted policy relabel is required.
*** Relabeling could take a very long time, depending on file
*** system size and speed of hard drives.
It displayed asterisks to indicate progress, but they stopped part way through the third line. It's been running for almost 2 hours.

I tried Google, but came up with nothing applicable. Can anyone throw me a bone? TIA!

[SlowJet]

Selinux relabeling takes 1 or 2 minutes per GB of used space.
For Fedora it will take 4-8 minutes.
The hash markers usual end a little over mid screen on the 3rd row (depending on the vga mode.)

I am thinking the relabel completed and tried to boot and hung on some usuall upgrade problem, like
KMS, fstab mount issue, wrong root pointer, old release kerel and so on.

Boot up with rescue nomodeset enforcing=0 xdriver=vesa vga=ask
mote the /mount/image command if you get that far,.

SJ

[lujate]

Originally Posted by SlowJet

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Boot up with rescue nomodeset enforcing=0 xdriver=vesa vga=ask
mote the /mount/image command if you get that far,.
...

OK, you lost me there. Are these changes to grub.conf?

[SlowJet]

Well, you can try the installed grub menu first by pressing esc key and selecting the kernel, press e key, select kernel line, press e key, add/change/ remove parms,
press enter, press b to boot

try a 3 on the end if the above hangs up to come up in command line mode.

The point is to get to the logs in /var/log and messages and /root logs and /etc/X11/xorg-log.* and so on to determine the problem(s).

SJ

[lujate]

I booted with rescue nomodeset enforcing=0 xdriver=vesa vga=ask added to the end of the kernel parms. It prompted me to pick a display mode, but still hung up on the Relabeling. The "3" did get it to boot to a command line.

The last line in /var/log/boot.log is:
Registering binary handler for Windows applications

/etc/X11/xorg-log.* does not exist.

[SlowJet]

You need to df -l on the dir's and look at the file names for the logs.

Try the boot again as above but change enforcing=0 to selinux=0

SJ

[lujate]

With selinux=0, the system comes up to a blank screen with the cursor flashing in the upper left.

I don't think it's the Relabeling that's the issue. I powered on a USB device and now it handles that device after the Relabeling before the hang.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with "df" (Disk usage).

Edit:
Would /var/log/Xorg.0.log be the file I'm looking for?

---------- Post added at 09:08 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 07:12 PM CST ----------

Since I was able to log on to the console, I decided to go ahead and load and apply all the updates. I then did a reboot with the default settings and it came up to a GUI log-on.

Thanks!