Excerpts from Sven Vermeulen's message of Fri Dec 30 05:28:01 -0700 2011: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:09:18AM +0100, "Tóth Attila" wrote: > > Negative feedback: > > firefox-9.0 ebuild stalls at the install phase while xpcshell command tops > > CPU usage for hours. Shutting down the process makes the ebuild die. > > Issuing the command again on the compiled sources triggers the same error. > > Regarding the firefox issue, I don't know if a bug is already opened for > that, but the solution is to paxmark -r (disable RANDMMAP) both xpcshell > (you'll need to edit the ebuild to do so or do it before it starts in the > install phase) and the resulting firefox binary (on the system). >
For reference the associated bug is - <bug# 396275> www-client/firefox 9.0 and xpcshell on grsec/pax kernel run into infinite loop doing mmap/munmap, need paxctl -r -- Regards, Wirt
