* Starting uptimed ... Parsing btime from /proc/stat failed. Can not determine bootid, exiting! * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/uptimed' The reason is here: # sudo -u uptimed grep btime /proc/stat btime 0 On earlier version of hardened-sources-3.12.5-hardened uptimed worked correctly, so output of /proc/stat for non-root changed between mentioned versions. # emerge --info FEATURES variable contains unknown value(s): Xfail-clean, Xkeepwork, Xprofile, Xsplitdebug, Xtest, Yunknown-features-filter, profile-use Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.6-hardened-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.6-hardened-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_930_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 762088 total, 24612 free KiB Swap: 1172708 total, 1172708 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:30:01 +0000 ld GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.23.2) 1.11 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.2-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fexpensive-optimizations -fgraphite-identity -floop-interchange -ftree-loop-linear -floop-block -floop-strip-mine -fira-loop-press ure -fpredictive-commoning -freorder-blocks-and-partition -ftracer -ftree-vectorize -frecord-gcc-switches -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind- tables --param l2-cache-size=128 --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=32 -pipe -Wdisabled-optimization -Wstack-protector" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/easy-rsa /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3 /ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fexpensive-optimizations -fgraphite-identity -floop-interchange -ftree-loop-linear -floop-block -floop-strip-mine -fira-loop-pre ssure -fpredictive-commoning -freorder-blocks-and-partition -ftracer -ftree-vectorize -frecord-gcc-switches -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwin d-tables --param l2-cache-size=128 --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=32 -pipe -Wdisabled-optimization -Wstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="Xfail-clean Xkeepwork Xprofile Xsplitdebug Xtest Yunknown-features-filter assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs profile-use protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mneisen.org/" LANG="pl_PL.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="-O --inplace" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="acpi amd64 apache2 bash-completion caps hardened idn iproute2 ipv6 mmap mmx mmxext modules multilib nls openmp openssl smp sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4a ssse3 syslog threads threadsafe unicode urandom vhosts vim-syntax xtpax" ABI_X86="64" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon auth_digest authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user cache cgi dav dav_fs dav_lock dir env expires ext_filter filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif status unique_id usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" CURL_SSL="openssl" ELIBC="glibc" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access browser charset gzip map limit_zone proxy rewrite stub_status" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="fuzzy geoip lscan psd sysrq tarpit" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 367280 [details] kernel config
Should be fixed in grsecurity-3.0-3.12.6-201401082027 according to changelog http://grsecurity.net/changelog-test.txt
Indeed Alexander, it looks next hardened-kernel release will fix it.
With kernel 3.12.8-hardened uptimed works correctly.