"Prasad Duggineni" <pduggineni(at)prominencenet(dot)com> writes:
> Try turning the enforcement mode off.
Or put the data directory where the standard selinux policy expects it
to be, namely /var/lib/pgsql/data.
The lack of any useful error message is a selinux policy bug, which
appears to be fixed in reasonably-current FC4 (I've got
selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.4-10, and I don't see it).
regards, tom lane