I see it from my pax.log: Sep 11 17:55:33 devil kernel: PAX: execution attempt in: (null), 00000000-00000000 00000000 Sep 11 17:55:33 devil kernel: PAX: terminating task: /usr/bin/dolphin(dolphin):15623, uid/euid: 0/0, PC: 00000010, SP: 580e955c Sep 11 17:55:33 devil kernel: PAX: bytes at PC: ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? Sep 11 17:55:33 devil kernel: PAX: bytes at SP-4: 00000024 4b4e9ef9 11535970 580e95ac 580e95a8 b85ad87f 580e95ac 4af85dac 580e95d8 111bbdbc 580e95ac 580e95b4 00000000 b85ad87f 00000000 580e9638 10d84140 4b675370 580e9624 580e9640 580e95d8 ago@devil ~ $ dolphin -v Qt: 4.7.4 KDE Development Platform: 4.7.1 (4.7.1) Dolphin: 1.7 Portage 2.1.10.11 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-hardened i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-hardened-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-M_CPU_430_@_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -g0 -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -g0 -w" DISTDIR="/media/sources" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apic bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt custom-cflags custom-optimization cxx dbus dri dvd extras ffmpeg gdbm gpm gtk hardened iconv jpeg jpeg2k kde lame lm_sensors mad mmx modules mp3 mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre perl pic png policykit pppd python qt3support qt4 readline semantic-desktop session sse sse2 ssl svg symlink sysfs tcpd threads tiff tordns udev urandom x264 x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en en_GB" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Is this reproducable? @hardened: Any Idea what we can do about it?
The app is trying to run some thing on null and that is way it get killed by pax. A backtrace is needed.
(In reply to comment #2) > The app is trying to run some thing on null and > that is way it get killed by pax. > A backtrace is needed. Is not always reproducible. Probably I can't help too
So we need a backtrace. Setting to NEEDINFO