> I just upgraded an amd64 host from one snapshot (~20 April) to the > latest (26 May). > > Upon rebooting, a rapid succession of the following error messages start > to appear: > > /bsd: java(81240): mprotect W^X violation > > This is even after updating to the latest snapshot build of the JDK port > (jdk-1.8.0.72v0). > > The only Java app running on this host is an older version of > apache-solr, v 4.8.1, I believe. Would upgrading solr to a more recent > version clear this up?
We are working on some system features which will constrain W^X executables to specific mountpoints, and specifically linked executables (an ELF flag). In the newest snapshots, you can put ",wxallowed" as a flag in your /etc/fstab entry for /usr/local to get around this.
