2012/12/11 Nikolaos Milas <nmilas at noa.gr>: > I am using a VM with CentOS 5.8 x86_64 under KVM. I only have console > access to the VM through a virtual console (web based). > > Tonight, after a routine "yum update", I did a "shutdown -r now" due to > kernel update and the VM won't start. See console screenshot vm1.png: > > https://vmail.noa.gr/files/vm1.png > > There is an error (which I haven't seen before): > > type=1404 audit (...): selinux=0 auid=... ses= ... Is this really error? I > > (see vm1.png above) > > (The system cannot load even with the old kernel; the same error occurs.) > > Note that SElinux is disabled on this system. I booted in rescue mode, > and auto mount was unsuccessful (see maybe you need to disable selinux before trying to mount rescue environment? > https://vmail.noa.gr/files/vm2.png). The log of the rescue process shows > some error (see https://vmail.noa.gr/files/vm4.png) How about installing new vm and just copying files and settings to it? Can you boot this vm to single user mode ? -- Eero
