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From: "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:58:17
Message-Id: 14d5356d16f518f56244e5b8aaf2cf24.squirrel@atoth.sote.hu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources & tp_smapi, firefox-9.0 install stucks by Wirt Wolff
1 Thanks for the info.
2 I'm screaming into my pillow.
3
4 --
5 dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057
6 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
7
8 2011.December 30.(P) 22:12 időpontban Wirt Wolff ezt írta:
9 > Excerpts from Sven Vermeulen's message of Fri Dec 30 05:28:01 -0700 2011:
10 >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:09:18AM +0100, "Tóth Attila" wrote:
11 >> > Negative feedback:
12 >> > firefox-9.0 ebuild stalls at the install phase while xpcshell command
13 >> tops
14 >> > CPU usage for hours. Shutting down the process makes the ebuild die.
15 >> > Issuing the command again on the compiled sources triggers the same
16 >> error.
17 >>
18 >> Regarding the firefox issue, I don't know if a bug is already opened for
19 >> that, but the solution is to paxmark -r (disable RANDMMAP) both
20 >> xpcshell
21 >> (you'll need to edit the ebuild to do so or do it before it starts in
22 >> the
23 >> install phase) and the resulting firefox binary (on the system).
24 >>
25 >
26 > For reference the associated bug is
27 >
28 > - <bug# 396275> www-client/firefox 9.0 and xpcshell on grsec/pax kernel
29 > run into infinite loop doing mmap/munmap, need paxctl -r
30 >
31 > --
32 > Regards,
33 > Wirt
34 >
35 >