bug report from parrot-fedora-package-user

Gerd Pokorra gp at zimt.uni-siegen.de
Thu May 7 09:04:41 UTC 2009


Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 16:02 +0200 schrieb Mark Glines:
> If that's what I think it is, this particular bug has been showing up a
> lot from Fedora users.  It seems Fedora uses selinux with a
> configuration more strict than most; it doesn't like that our JIT
> buffers are both writable and executable, so it disables the exec bit
> and causes a segfault when we try to execute it.  Another fedora user
> (this one was building parrot from source) has told us that setting
> selinux to "permissive" mode allows parrot to work.  See
> https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/581#comment:7
> 

I copied this comment to bugzilla and ask the user to examine if it is
selinux. I think I have to rebuild the package so that it has no
problems with selinux.

> 
> For bugs in parrot, creating trac tickets for them wouldn't hurt, with a
> link to the bugzilla ticket, I guess.  That way it will stay on our radar.
> 

Okay, I will do so.

Thanks for helping,
  Gerd




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