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Bug 464940 - Warning displayed by all emerges using paxctl (oldstyle / newstyle pax flags problem?)
Summary: Warning displayed by all emerges using paxctl (oldstyle / newstyle pax flags ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Hardened (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: The Gentoo Linux Hardened Team
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Reported: 2013-04-07 10:57 UTC by Klaus Kusche
Modified: 2013-08-15 09:14 UTC (History)
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Description Klaus Kusche 2013-04-07 10:57:29 UTC
Whenever an emerge is using paxctl (e.g. firefox, thunderbird, libreoffice,
all kinds of java, ...), it displays a big warning that paxctl failed to set
the required pax flags.

However, in spite of the warning, the executables do have the correct pax flags
set and work fine, so paxctl actually worked
(paxctl also works without warning when called manually).

Most likely (as the warning says something about XATTR), the warning 
is displayed because setting newstyle pax flags failed (which is expected,
because neither my kernel nor my filesystems support xattr).
However, there should be no warning as long as oldstyle pax flags work fine.
Comment 1 Klaus Kusche 2013-08-15 09:14:03 UTC
Warning has disappeared, obviously something was fixed...