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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] miro segfaults when PAX is not in softmode
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:02:36
Message-Id: 1239314552.23605.10.camel@hangover
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] miro segfaults when PAX is not in softmode by Grant
1 On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:21 -0700, Grant wrote:
2 > >> > in that case you have to use paxctl on the python interpreter, not
3 > >> > the script. but before that it's better to find out why it crashes,
4 > >> > so you should produce a coredump and analyze it.
5 > >>
6 > >> Thank you, I ran 'paxctl -m /usr/bin/python' and now miro starts
7 > >> without softmode enabled. I use the miro ebuild from this bug:
8 > >>
9 > >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527
10 > >
11 > > it wants too much gnome stuff for my taste, so it's up to you or someone
12 > > else to figure out why MPROTECT needs to be removed on python as it's less
13 > > than ideal. it could be something as simple as a badly marked library it
14 > > loads for example, but without actual debugging we'll never know...
15 >
16 > I'd love to get this fixed. The dependencies don't look so bad to me.
17 > Aren't gnome-python and gst-python the only gnome depedencies:
18 >
19 > pygtk
20 > python
21 > pysqlite
22 > gnome-python
23 > gtkmozembed-python
24 > xorg-server
25 > dbus-python
26 > xulrunner
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30
31 > pyrex
32
33 ^^
34 I have a feeling this one is the root of your problems.
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40 > imagemagick
41 > xine-lib
42 > rb_libtorrent
43 > gst-python
44 >
45 > Here's a link to the ebuild:
46 >
47 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=186070
48 >
49 > - Grant
50 >
51 --
52 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
53 Gentoo Linux