Chuck Campbell wrote: > I did a complete clean install of CentOS 5 from CD yesterday. > I took the default selinux configuration. > > After that I ran yum update and found 600 plus updates and installs. That's a lot of updates. Do you really mean CentOS 5 rather than 5.2? > I let it go to do the updates and during that process I saw a large number of > issues in the selinux troubleshooter. > > I also see these kinds of things in /var/log/messages: > > **Unmatched Entries** (Only first 10 out of 49031 are printed) > audit: audit_backlog=262 > audit_backlog_limit=256 > audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=256 > audit: backlog limit exceeded > audit: audit_backlog=262 > audit_backlog_limit=256 > audit: audit_lost=2 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=256 > audit: backlog limit exceeded > . > . > . > > This makes me wonder if I've now got a corrupt system because of partial > installs/upgrades on a number of packages ? > > Do I need to start over with a clean install again, and how do I avoid this > problem the next time I try to run updates after the install? Could try putting selinux in permissive mode, or disabling, before updating - then restoring to the more secure level; however, that should not be necessary. Phil