From: pageexec@freemail.hu
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] foldingathome and PAX
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:13:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49ECC94C.31865.4D050A8@pageexec.freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240254225.12686.8.camel@lillen.dodi>
On 20 Apr 2009 at 21:03, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote:
> I realised earlier today that foldingathome (installed with the help of
> portage) had not started a new WU since 5 of april, and when I started
> to investigate I found out that the "cores" had problem running.
>
> cd /opt/foldingathome &&
> paxctl -c FahCore_*.exe &&
> paxctl -PEMrXS FahCore_*.exe
>
> makes it work again.
> foldingathome has worked in the past without problems, and I do not
> really know what have changed more then some kernel-upgrades (but
> booting the last kept 2.6.27-hardened did not help either) and keeping
> the userland up to stable x86.
> What can I do to not have to do this dance?
can you re-enable pax on the binaries and see if they produce any logs
(pax kills)? if they do, try to remove mprotect only and see if that
helps. the other issue could be a bad glibc and lack of GNU_STACK headers,
execstack -c would fix that without having to compromise on pax.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 19:03 [gentoo-hardened] foldingathome and PAX Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-04-20 19:13 ` pageexec [this message]
2009-04-20 19:53 ` [gentoo-hardened] " Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-04-20 20:02 ` pageexec
2009-04-20 20:38 ` Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-04-20 21:07 ` pageexec
2009-04-21 4:46 ` [gentoo-hardened] " Peter Hjalmarsson
2009-04-21 19:15 ` pageexec
2009-04-21 13:44 ` [gentoo-hardened] " Brian Kroth
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