Re: [Devil-linux-develop] GRsec message during boot

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

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On Thu, May 25, 2006 07:27, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> I'm currently analyzing the way DL boots and therefore often watching the
> boot process. Lots of the time (approx. 90%) I see a GRsec message right
> after the initrd starts. For the exact message see the screenshot at
> <ftp://ftp.fl.priv.at/pub/devil-linux/1.2.x/screenshots/2006-05-25-grsec-
> msg-during-boot-01.png>.
>
> Does somebody know where this is coming from? As far as I can interpret
> this message busybox (don't know which subcommand of it) seems to request
> to big a stack segment.
>
> The commands in question between the two echo's:
>
>
> echo -n "Version "; $YELLOW; echo ${DL_VERSION}; $NORMAL
>
> [...code for subroutines supressed...]
>
>
> # make sure all kernel warnings get lost (seriously!)
> klogd -c 1
>
> # mount proc
> mount -n -t proc none /proc
>
> # mount usb
> mount -n -t usbdevfs none /proc/bus/usb
>
> # print our current running kernel version
> echo Kernel $(uname -r)
>
> Adding echo commands inbetween the command invocations it looks like the
> first mount command is the offender.
>
> Anybody can make sense of this?

I have this error too, just complete forgott about it, since usually don't
watch my systems boot.
These kind of error messages are usually happening when a program errors
out. We probably need to change the mount command, maybe the syntax
changed in a later busybox.

> PS: Currently I'm running DL with QEMU but I've seen the same with VMware
> too.

I have it in VMWare

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org

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