Re: [gentoo-hardened] problems with bittorrent and bittornado

[Rumen Yotov]

On нд, 2004-08-01 at 00:05, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 16:44, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Tried to DL the new packages-athlon-XP-2004.2.iso with bittorrent or
> > bittornado but couldn't. The system killed the processes
> > (btdownloadcurses and gui).
>
>
> > Used strace and it seems that PaX is the culpit, could somebody confirm
> > this?
>
> Your understanding of the problem seems backwards. python is probably
> the culpit and PaX is only making it obvious that something else has a
> fundamental code flaw.
> (It bugs me when I see people blame pax & grsec for faulty software)
>
Agreed, think PaX&grsec2 even help catch such things :).
Bad wording. PaX is just doing what it should.
For the moment just wanted to make sure it's not my own problem, as i
have too much :) security things switched ON (PaX&grsec2, even /tmp is
mounted noexec, ..).Know i have to pay a price (sometimes) for using it.
> Now without a single piece of debug info or dmesg logs we can't do
> anything to help you.
>
OK, you right.
> > Have quite full grsec2&PaX with ~x86 system (hardened).
> > Did it with azureus, but it's a java app.
> > During tries with strace it even locked my xterm.
> > TIA
> > Rumen
Here is the output info of (attachments):
$strace -ff -obittorrent.err python /usr/bin/bittorrent.py
install-x86-universal-allstages-2004.2.iso + emerge_info.txt
TIA
Rumen
PS:as the first message was rejected by list-mailer as being to big,
(231K),compressed the .err file. Sorry for this. Should i file a bug?