9.1.7. How to recover from SELINUX policy failureΒΆ

If you experience a failed boot after running simp bootstrap with an error that says something along the lines of Failed to load SELINUX policy, freezing, follow these instructions:

  1. Reboot into single user mode or a rescue shell (instructions on EL6 and EL7). You may need your GRUB password that was set during simp config.
  2. Reinstall the selinux policy: yum reinstall -y selinux-policy-targeted
  3. Tell the kernel to relabel all files during next boot: touch /.autorelabel
  4. Reboot