exec-shield problems

2003-06-13 Thread Adam Polkosnik
I've noticed that there are still a few programs that crash when exec-shield is enabled ( I'm running the latest rawhide). i.e. grub-install crashes rendering system unbootable. Is there an easy way to fix it other than `echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield` ? ___

internal buffer overflow in init...

2003-06-13 Thread James Olin Oden
OK, this is the original problem I was trying to figure with the debug version of init. In house we have an app that was starting a process manager from init. It was starting after the sysinit entry and before the runlevel script entries (it needed to be around when the runlevel scripts were ran

DEBUG output in init causes fifo to be ignored...

2003-06-13 Thread James Olin Oden
I was experience a problem with init (not running rc scripts; I will deal with this in seperate email), and so I pulled down the SysVinit srpm and rebuilt it with DEBUG set to 1 in init.h. This cause init to print lots of nice debug output, but... When its in this mode on our 2GHz, duel processor

Re: kudzu question

2003-06-13 Thread Bill Nottingham
Vijay Patil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >I was going through the PS2 detection routines > in the kudzu code (psaux.c) and struck a problem > there. I tried copying the psauxProbe() function and > mouse_read(), mouse_cmd() functions to another C file > and running it (after removing the psaux

kudzu question

2003-06-13 Thread Vijay Patil
Hello, I was going through the PS2 detection routines in the kudzu code (psaux.c) and struck a problem there. I tried copying the psauxProbe() function and mouse_read(), mouse_cmd() functions to another C file and running it (after removing the psaux_device struct operations, replacing them