>> google-chrome suffers intermittent crashes on x86 unless I enable >> softmode. Is there any other option to keep it running? > > can you get some details on the nature of crashes? any logs perhaps? > if softmode fixes it then it's probably MPROTECT related, did you > already disable it on the binary?
MPROTECT is actually already disabled: # paxctl -v /opt/google/chrome/chrome PaX control v0.7 Copyright 2004,2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,2011,2012 PaX Team <[email protected]> - PaX flags: -----m-x-e-- [/opt/google/chrome/chrome] MPROTECT is disabled RANDEXEC is disabled EMUTRAMP is disabled Here's the segfault from dmesg: chrome[13338]: segfault at bbadbeef ip 14d81f2b sp 5ec2e1b0 error 6 in chrome[136f4000+4203000] grsec: Segmentation fault occurred at bbadbeef in /opt/google/chrome/chrome[chrome:13338] uid/euid:1009/1009 gid/egid:1009/1009, parent /opt/google/chrome/chrome[chrome:12981] uid/euid:1009/1009 gid/egid:1009/1009 - Grant
