On Sunday, April 5, 2009 08:54:22 Grant wrote: > >> I use a program called miro a lot, but since upgrading to gcc-4.3.3, > >> it segfaults if I don't issue: > > > > what's the package name? or what ebuild do you use? > > > >> grsec: signal 11 sent to /usr/bin/miro.real[miro.real:19177] > >> uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:100/100, parent /usr/bin/miro[miro:19176] > >> uid/euid:1000/1000 gid/egid:100/100 > >> > >> and since miro.real is a python script: > > > > in that case you have to use paxctl on the python interpreter, not > > the script. but before that it's better to find out why it crashes, > > so you should produce a coredump and analyze it. > > Thank you, I ran 'paxctl -m /usr/bin/python' and now miro starts > without softmode enabled. I use the miro ebuild from this bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131527 > > - Gramt
Don't know what miro is and didn't bother to look at the bug, but removing MPROTECT on python is not good. One alternative might be to write simple wrapper in C for miro and paxctl that instead. Gordon Malm (gengor)
