The network service fails on starting with SElinux errors on libresolv.so.2

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Issue

After upgrading from RHEL-5.4 to RHEL-5.5 the network can not be started when SElinux is configured to run in Enforcing mode. The error during boot mentions:

arping: error while loading shared libraries: libresolv.so.2: can not open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • SElinux in Enforcing mode

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