I have come across a pretty serious bug when trying to swith to an SELinux profile on my system. I have made numerous attempts changing different things, the result is always the same. The kernel is booted with the following parameters... Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.49-gentoo-r1-nextgen-007 root=/dev/vda4 ro console=ttyS0,115200n8 security=selinux selinux=1 enforcing=0 It occurs when this first step from the wiki installation guide is ran... FEATURES="-selinux" emerge -1 selinux-base As soon as that is done the system is enforcing... # getenforce Enforcing This happens despite setting enforcing to 0 with the boot parameter. It is clearly set at this 1st stage of the install. This prevents the next step in the installation wiki from working... >>> Installing (1 of 1) sec-policy/selinux-base-2.20200818-r2::gentoo !!! Failed to move /var/tmp/portage/sec-policy/selinux-base-2.20200818- r2/image/etc/selinux/config to /etc/selinux/config !!! [Errno 61] No data available I cannot simply set `setenforce 0` to get it working and out of Enforcing, as I am in the wrong context for it. At this early stage of the install it seems impossible to change what that context will be. # setenforce 0 setenforce: setenforce() failed This is what I get when I try to see what context I am in... # id -Z id: --context (-Z) works only on an SELinux-enabled kernel Because of these errors I am unable to install SELinux, though I can disable SELinux through /sys # echo 1 > /sys/fs/selinux/disable My emerge --info output (with SELinux disabled at runtime)... Portage 3.0.20 (python 3.9.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/hardened/selinux, gcc-10.3.0, glibc-2.33-r1, 5.10.49-gentoo-r1-nextgen-007 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.10.49-gentoo-r1-nextgen-007-x86_64-Intel_Core_Processor_-Skylake,_IBRS-with-glibc2.33 KiB Mem: 4042944 total, 3339532 free KiB Swap: 7999484 total, 7999484 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 99e07544b3564a426c91f954e1ab7542e316563b sh bash 5.1_p8 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.35.2 p1) 2.35.2 app-shells/bash: 5.1_p8::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.32.1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.9.5_p2::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.18.5::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1-r1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.24::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.3-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.35.2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 10.3.0-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.4::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.10::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.33-r1::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox selinux sesandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="C.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="acl amd64 audit bzip2 caps crypt hardened iconv ipv6 libglvnd libtirpc ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pcre pie python readline seccomp selinux split-usr ssl ssp unicode xattr xtpax zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" LUA_TARGETS="lua5-1" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-3 php7-4" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_9" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby26" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq proto steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RUSTFLAGS Note: this is my first bug report and I don't know what severity applies here, so I am leaving it at normal