RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi, I have a RHEL 6.2 system that I logged into OK yesterday and did some work (including installing a number of RPMs). This morning I was unable to login through SSH, though I'm sure I used the right password. So I went to the console which still had root logged on and tried the passwd

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Filipe Miranda
Michael, I think you best shot for now is to start RHEL in init 1 or Single user mode, and put SELinux in permissive mode. If it works, probably RACF is not behaving well with SELinux. If you need help with that, let me know, Regards, Filipe Miranda Linux on System z On 21/08/2012, at

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Filipe, I think you best shot for now is to start RHEL in init 1 or Single user mode, and put SELinux in permissive mode. If it works, probably RACF is not behaving well with SELinux. Thanks for the quick reply (and welcome to the land of z :)) I did not try run level 1. What I did try was

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Sam Bass
] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:02 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL Filipe, I think you best shot for now is to start RHEL in init 1 or Single user mode, and put SELinux in permissive mode. If it works, probably RACF

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Sam, That disk might still be attached to the other guest and you did not detach them, so when you ipled your guest the system's disk was mounted read only? No, I had them R/W. Thanks for the append though... Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 08/21/2012 at 09:39 EDT, Filipe Miranda fmira...@redhat.com wrote: I think you best shot for now is to start RHEL in init 1 or Single user mode, and put SELinux in permissive mode. If it works, probably RACF is not behaving well with SELinux. Linux and RACF have no interaction

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi, I'll follow up with more info on the can't login/SE Linux issue later. I reinstalled RHEL 6.2, this time dasdfmt'ing the two disks from a root shell before using the install shell. I turned off SE Linux by setting SELINUX=permissive in /etc/selinux/config, and ran through the same steps

Re: RHEL 6.2 will not IPL

2012-08-21 Thread Hall, Kenneth J
. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:25 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] RHEL 6.2 will not IPL Hi, I'll follow up with more info on the can't login/SE Linux issue