Bug#611195: vlc-nox: generating plugin cache at postinst segfaults on PaX kernel

2011-02-26 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Pierre Ynard wrote: reassign 611195 libc6 tags 611195 + patch thanks so there you have it in a nutshell. probably the quickest 'fix' is to at least add a check for mprotect's return value I wrote a patch that should fix the segfault. I couldn't

Bug#611195: vlc-nox: generating plugin cache at postinst segfaults on PaX kernel

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Ynard
reassign 611195 libc6 tags 611195 + patch thanks so there you have it in a nutshell. probably the quickest 'fix' is to at least add a check for mprotect's return value I wrote a patch that should fix the segfault. I couldn't test it because I don't have an appropriate environment to rebuild

Bug#611195: vlc-nox: generating plugin cache at postinst segfaults on PaX kernel

2011-01-26 Thread Pierre Ynard
Package: vlc-nox Version: 1.1.3-1squeeze2 Severity: normal Upgrading gives the following error: Setting up vlc-nox (1.1.3-1squeeze2) ... Segmentation fault dpkg: error processing vlc-nox (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Apparently,

Bug#611195: vlc-nox: generating plugin cache at postinst segfaults on PaX kernel

2011-01-26 Thread pageexec
On 26 Jan 2011 at 17:03, Pierre Ynard wrote: mprotect(0x4946b000, 3840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ zsh: segmentation fault strace -f /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen /usr/lib/vlc/plugins Note