This was the problem. I set it to Classic Pentium and now checkpolicy works fine.

Conan

• Original Message ----- From: "Howard Holm" <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil> To: "Conan Callen" <ccallen@windowpane.com> Cc: <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: Re: checkpolicy creates core file

> There's not a lot of information to go on here, but you might check the
> kernel configuration under "Processor type and features" for "Processor
> family" type. I've seen similar problems when a kernel/checkpolicy is
> compiled for a Pentium 3 and run on a standard Pentium.
>
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:36:29PM -0700, Conan Callen wrote:
> > I get a core file whenever checkpolicy is executed. While running step 4
(build and install the example policy configuration) the core occurs.
> >
> > During the first install, today, I got this error. I thought I may had
made a mistake, so I started over from scrath (deleted (rm -rf) both /root/lsm & /root/selinux then untared the distribution again). Once again I got the same error.
> >
> > Im going to continue with the install. I brought the core up in gdb, but
its going to take a while for me to figure out whats going on. Im hoping that I can fix it after I get it installed.
> >
> > I started with

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/lsm/archives/lsm-200108221537.tgz. I just installed a fresh RedHat 7.1.
> >
> >
> > I had installed selinux successfully before, but I got a "Kernel Panic"
that looked like it was caused by a harddisk error. So I started with a new couple new harddrives and reinstalled linux.
> --
> Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
> Information Assurance Research Group
> National Security Agency
>

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