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From: Wirt Wolff <zug6illa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened <gentoo-hardened@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:12:40
Message-Id: 1325279493-sup-551@chigamba
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks by Sven Vermeulen
1 Excerpts from Sven Vermeulen's message of Fri Dec 30 05:28:01 -0700 2011:
2 > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:09:18AM +0100, "Tóth Attila" wrote:
3 > > Negative feedback:
4 > > firefox-9.0 ebuild stalls at the install phase while xpcshell command tops
5 > > CPU usage for hours. Shutting down the process makes the ebuild die.
6 > > Issuing the command again on the compiled sources triggers the same error.
7 >
8 > Regarding the firefox issue, I don't know if a bug is already opened for
9 > that, but the solution is to paxmark -r (disable RANDMMAP) both xpcshell
10 > (you'll need to edit the ebuild to do so or do it before it starts in the
11 > install phase) and the resulting firefox binary (on the system).
12 >
13
14 For reference the associated bug is
15
16 - <bug# 396275> www-client/firefox 9.0 and xpcshell on grsec/pax kernel
17 run into infinite loop doing mmap/munmap, need paxctl -r
18
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Wirt

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Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu>