Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread pageexec
On 26 Dec 2010 at 1:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I've got (at least) two servers that lose their root partition after > this upgrade. One of them has an HP cciss SCSI RAID controller; the > other has a single IDE hard drive. Assuming the problem is something > common, I'll stick to describing the

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/26/2010 03:46 AM, pagee...@freemail.hu wrote: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 1:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I've got (at least) two servers that lose their root partition after >> this upgrade. One of them has an HP cciss SCSI RAID controller; the >> other has a single IDE hard drive. Assuming the

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/26/2010 03:46 AM, pagee...@freemail.hu wrote: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 1:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I've got (at least) two servers that lose their root partition after >> this upgrade. One of them has an HP cciss SCSI RAID controller; the >> other has a single IDE hard drive. Assuming the

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 12/26/2010 03:46 AM, pagee...@freemail.hu wrote: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 1:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I've got (at least) two servers that lose their root partition after >> this upgrade. One of them has an HP cciss SCSI RAID controller; the >> other has a single IDE hard drive. Assuming the

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread pageexec
On 26 Dec 2010 at 12:06, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I do have UDEREF enabled: > > # grep UDEREF .config > CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y > > I can try disabling it when I'd be willing to drive to work and reboot > the thing. ok, in this case don't worry about it as i'm sure it's a known bug. if

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/26/2010 12:57 PM, pagee...@freemail.hu wrote: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 12:06, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I do have UDEREF enabled: >> >> # grep UDEREF .config >> CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y >> >> I can try disabling it when I'd be willing to drive to work and reboot >> the thing. > > ok, in

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/26/2010 12:57 PM, pagee...@freemail.hu wrote: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 12:06, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> I do have UDEREF enabled: >> >> # grep UDEREF .config >> CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y >> >> I can try disabling it when I'd be willing to drive to work and reboot >> the thing. > > ok, in

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread pageexec
On 26 Dec 2010 at 14:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Challenge accepted. I'm dressed, the car's cleaned off, and I'm > recompiling with UDEREF=n. passing pax_nouderef on the kernel cmdline should be enough ;)

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread pageexec
On 26 Dec 2010 at 19:59, "Tóth Attila" wrote: > I don't know if it is related or not. I don't use ext4 and have no > symptoms of disappearing root. I attach a photo taken using a recent > kernel. The latest crashes I've experienced for the past few months > prevented syncing, so didn't get logged.

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread klondike
El 26/12/10 21:06, pagee...@freemail.hu escribió: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 19:59, "Tóth Attila" wrote: > >> I don't know if it is related or not. I don't use ext4 and have no >> symptoms of disappearing root. I attach a photo taken using a recent >> kernel. The latest crashes I've experienced for the pa

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread klondike
El 26/12/10 21:00, pagee...@freemail.hu escribió: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 14:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> Challenge accepted. I'm dressed, the car's cleaned off, and I'm >> recompiling with UDEREF=n. > passing pax_nouderef on the kernel cmdline should be enough ;) This should be documented in the F

Re: [gentoo-hardened] Disappearing root on 2.6.36-hardened-r6 upgrade

2010-12-26 Thread klondike
El 26/12/10 21:00, pagee...@freemail.hu escribió: > On 26 Dec 2010 at 14:09, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> Challenge accepted. I'm dressed, the car's cleaned off, and I'm >> recompiling with UDEREF=n. > passing pax_nouderef on the kernel cmdline should be enough ; looking at ./Documentation/kernel-p