12-08-2019, 11:30 AM
(12-07-2019, 01:34 PM)Hidden Refuge Wrote: So the internal rescue mode of CentOS is useless, too. Thankfully there was a CentOS 8 ISO available. I mounted it and restarted the VPS. In the CentOS 8 ISO bootloader I could select a option to run a system rescue mode. The rescue mode mounts the installed CentOS into /mnt/sysimage and from there on you can access all files through the rescue sh shell of CentOS 8. I edited /etc/selinux/config (/mnt/sysimage/etc/selinux/config) and set SELINUX to disabled. I saved the file and rebooted the VPS. It started from the installed CentOS 7 and I could login normally in the Linux TTY and also in SSH.
That's about it. SELinux was overly protective and broke pretty much the whole system. To be honest: SELinux is cancer. Not only that NSA was working on it but it's kinda not helpful at all.
Your VPS is working again.
This is brilliant @"Hidden Refuge". MANY THANKS for going above and beyond. This is much appreciated.
I'm going to open another support thread as I can't help wonder whether this could be the issue I've been having with my newly upgraded VPS 9 as well. I don't want to hijack this thread however, so will open a new support thread for it.
@fChk Thank you for your feedback as well.