Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: PaX in linux-2.6.5-hardened-r5

> No log X11 file, nothing in syslog, nada.
>
> But it get's better: When I do it as 'root', it works! I can
> start xdm, for instance, and then log in as 'simons' and
> it's fine. I can startx as root, but I cannot startx as
> 'simons'. Once I go back to the development-sources kernel
> (without PaX), everything works normally.
>
> I have switched SELinux into permissive mode -- no
> difference either.
>
> Any ideas what this might be?

all i know is that PaX is uid agnostic plus if it kill something
there would be a log. can you at least strace the X server itself
and see how far it gets? also, what if you enable coredumping, do
you get a dump (and if so, what does the stack backtrace show)?


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