Re: [Devil-linux-develop] XFS abort....

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>>the XFS part is not maintained, since it's not working with grsecurity.
>>>>you have to get the latest patches and drivers.
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>>>Do we support turning off grsecurity?  I turned off grsecurity in
>>>menuconfig, did NOT select XFS and got the same thing.
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>>That should work fine....
>>And yes we support turning of grsecurity, we need to have this working.
>>Is it possible that you had XFS leftovers from your last try ?
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>No, I checked.  I grep'ed for XFS in .config and it was set to "n".
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The problem is, it could have messed up your kernel sources.
Try again with  a clean system, before you do anything.

>>What are the abort messages ?
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>They are scrolled off my screen now, but it was real similar with the
>kernel patches screwing up and hanging waiting for input.
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As I said, try again with a fresh system.

>>>grsecurity keeps killing processes on my server, so I need to get rid 
>>>of it.  (or learn it, but turning it off sounds easier)  :-)
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>>What are the messages ?
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>grsec: signal 6 sent to (thttpd:646) UID(65534) EUID(65534), parent (init:1) UID(0) EUID(0)
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>I have no idea why it's doing that.
>There have been other messages about squid processes too.
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What grsecurity does in this case, is loggin that something (init ?) 
send the signal 6 to thttpd.
Do you have enough RAM ?

I would try to get it running, since grsecurity improves the overal 
system security alot.

Thttpd works fine for me, so it would be interesting to find out what's 
wrong.

>>Did you ask for help on the grsecurity forum ?
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>No, I haven't checked into it yet.  I thought it would be easier to 
>turn off grsecurity since this box is behind a firewall anyway.
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>Would NOT running /etc/init.d/grsecurity accomplish the same thing?
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You can try to set everything in /etc/sysconfig/grsecurity.proc to 0 and 
see if it behaves different.

cya
  Heiko