Dear Art,

I am the sysadmin, which is bad news since I am much better as a
crystallographer... and I was working on a different issue on the same
machine the past week.

Our institut has a good firewall so I believe we'll be fine, the
installation of Arp/warp was smooth after the modification of grub as you
proposed.

Thank you very much!

Carlos

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:30 PM Artem Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> We had the same problem trying to install ARP/wARP on our Debian 10
> machines. TL;DR: you (or your sysadmin, since this requires root access)
> have to enable vsyscall as follows:
>
> echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vsyscall=emulate"' >> /etc/default/grub
> update-grub
> reboot
>
> An explainer (mostly from our sysadmin):
>
> vsyscall is a mechanism that accelerates certain system calls in Linux,
> apparently added as a way to execute specific system calls that don't need
> any real level of privilege to run. It's currently considered not very
> secure, which is why it's deactivated in many recent Linux flavors,
> including apparently Debian 10. The vsyscall = emulate setting seems to
> be the safest way to have vsyscall enabled while minimizing security
> vulnerability. Still, it seems like the best way to move forward is to
> compile the next version of ARP/wARP with the newer version of glibc. (some
> key insights obtained from this GitHub post and ones around it:
> https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1462#issuecomment-274398213
>
> Hope this helps!
> Art
>
>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:34 AM Carlos Kikuti <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear CCP4BB,
>>>
>>> I am unable to install ARP/WARP on a server with Debian 10, it says:
>>>
>>> Segmentation fault
>>> *** ERROR ***
>>> This machine cannot run ARP/wARP executables that
>>> are statically linked to glibc.
>>>
>>>     *** INSTALLATION OF ARP/wARP 8.0 FAILED ***
>>> Modified version exit status 1
>>>
>>> -- after some digging I found several old, unsolved issues about that in
>>> GitHub, any ideas about how to get around?
>>>
>>>
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>
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