Thank you very much Reg! That solves miraculously the problem. I was
playing with -E instead and it did not help me. At least I learned some
minimal experience with  paxctl that way :))   Bernhard



On 05/31/2017 06:20 PM, Reg Tiangha wrote:
> On 05/31/2017 04:59 AM, haaber wrote:
>> Some update : the same happens with 4.9.20.grsec. The reason seems
>> visible in ulimit -a:
>>
>> core file size  (blocks, -c)   0
>>
>> whereas thunderbird requests 4096 (whatsoever unit). Remains to
>> understand /etc/security/limits.conf
>>
>> Bernhard
> 
> systemd actually ignores /etc/security/limits.conf, although anything
> launched by a gnome-terminal (and maybe some other things as well) does
> respect that file.
> 
> systemd looks at /etc/systemd/user.conf and /etc/systemd/system.conf
> instead so if you're changing variables in limits.conf, you could try
> setting them there as well.
> 
> Or you can disable the memory protections on Thunderbird; that's what
> coldkernel actually did by default if you used their paxctld
> configuration, but it only had a listing for Icedove and not for
> Thunderbird.
> 
> You could add a listing under /etc/paxctld.conf for Thunderbird:
> 
> /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird    m
> 
> and/or manually convert the executable with paxctl if you have it installed:
> 
> sudo paxctl -cm /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird
> 
> 

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