From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvywO-0000Uk-Pl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:14:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0807E04E5; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r00tworld.com (r00tworld.com [212.85.137.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E26E04E5 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by r00tworld.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3KJE0d5016198 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:14:01 +0200 Received: from r00tworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (r00tworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11266-08 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:13:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (x.r00tworld.com [212.85.137.21]) by r00tworld.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3KJDs4L016188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:13:55 +0200 From: pageexec@freemail.hu To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:13:16 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] foldingathome and PAX Message-ID: <49ECC94C.31865.4D050A8@pageexec.freemail.hu> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <1240254225.12686.8.camel@lillen.dodi> References: <1240254225.12686.8.camel@lillen.dodi> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.50 PB1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (r00tworld.com [212.85.137.21]); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:13:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: r00tworld Anti-Virus System X-Archives-Salt: c09d34c1-2498-4c29-b1d8-e41bf655ab54 X-Archives-Hash: 48cc33450562f9b69a754ee5d00599dc 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.