Hi Tim,

You should try the latest VM[1], which should start without the increased 
priority heartbeat. If that doesn't work, then it must be some other 
issue, like JIT vs SELinux.

Levente

[1] https://bintray.com/opensmalltalk/vm/cog/_latestVersion#files

On Sun, 9 Apr 2017, Tim Cuthbertson wrote:

> I have searched the mail archive two years back and cannot find
> anything on the subject.
>
> If I set SELinux to permissive mode, Squeak starts successfully. So, I
> am certain that this is the problem. However, there is nothing in the
> SELinux audit logs indicating that a denial even occurred, so I do not
> know what to allow to fix the problem.
>
> The error message when I try to start Squeak is the same as when the
> limits have not been increased, but I have fixed that in
> /etc/security/limits.d, so the problem must be that SELinux is not
> allowing the limits to be reset.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and resolved it, other than by just
> turning off SELinux?