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From: Christian Heim <phreak@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Kernel Oops at Boot with hardened-sources
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:26:08
Message-Id: 200703182323.11820.phreak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Kernel Oops at Boot with hardened-sources by Charles Taylor
1 On Sunday 18 March 2007 22:56:37 Charles Taylor wrote:
2 > I'm attempting to use a kernel based on
3 > hardened-sources (2.6.18-hardened) on a Dell PowerEdge
4 > 2450 Server. Unfortunately, the kernel never boots...
5 > It dies just before init with the below error. (Full
6 > kernel hacking enabled.)
7 >
8 > grsecurity and PaX are disabled and the same .config
9 > that builds this disaster builds a perfectly working
10 > kernel using gentoo-sources (2.6.19-gentoo-r5) on the
11 > same machine.
12 >
13 > I've attached the .config file in question.
14 >
15 > Can anyone tell me how to make the hardened sources
16 > work??
17 >
18 > [ 63.553014] VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem)
19 > readonly.
20 > [ 63.553759] Freeing unused kernel memory: 284k
21 > freed
22 > [ 63.553889] Write protecting the kernel read-only
23 > data: 642k
24 > [ 63.685847] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging
25 > request<1>BUG: unable to hand
26 > le kernel paging request at virtual address c048d030
27
28 I'm not exactly sure what might cause this, but you could always try to use
29 the ~arched version of hardened-sources (which is also 2.6.19).
30
31 Regards,
32
33 Christian
34
35 --
36 Christian Heim <phreak at gentoo.org>
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Kernel Oops at Boot with hardened-sources Charles Taylor <security@××××××.net>