On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 09:54:21AM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote:
> It seemed like a good idea to update with new kernel patches, 4.14.134
> specifically, to catch mitigations for the CPU flaws. Suddenly
> Firefox-55.0.3 began crashing on certain pages. My console began showing
> errors related to force_s3tc_enable. That seems to be a red-herring though.
> One of the pages turned up by a search related his problem to a hardened
> Gentoo and PaX , which sounds about right for mine. I can't figure out a
> good set of keywords for a search though, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has
> similar experience or a suggestion. (I generally follow this list, but don't
> recall something like this, perhaps because it didn't seem relevant at the
> time.)
>
If you were using PaX, and indeed hardened gentoo, then you would be
a very long way from what most people here are doing. I will be
very surprised if that is the case. Current PaX (grsecurity) is
only available to paying customers. Hardened gentoo probably
includes fun things like RELRO as well as simpler hardening such
what I wrote about in the blfs-dev book this week (at the end of
Notes on Building Software).
I perhaps found the same link: the adblock plus extension was
crashing, starting in safe mode allowed the page to load (together
with its ads, obviously).
It might also be that changes at the problematic pages happened
independently, and this is the first time you've visited them since
changing the kernel. If so, booting the previous kernel (if that is
all you changed) will test that.
But in all seriousness, I don't think 8.1 has any reasonable desktop
usage now, other than to allow you to build a current LFS.
Sorry, I've no idea for what to search for (current google mostly
returns results for multiple terms with one of the crossed through
in the 'must include' underneath the summary.
ĸen
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