Public bug reported: Binary package hint: apparmor
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs compliant report 1. What you expected to happen going to the swimming pool 2. What actually happened System : Ubuntu 10.04 (upgrade) up to date, Kernel is 2.6.32-26-generic, Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12 syslog is literally overflowing with messages like this (many suppressed): xxx kernel: [15514.454740] type=1503 audit(1289919221.465:10403): operation="ptrace" pid=4885 parent=4884 profile="/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-*bin" tracer=4885 tracee=2247 every time a window or tab or something opens. I added deny capability sys_ptrace, to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox and I ran sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox giving Nov 16 19:30:13 p-hp-u kernel: [28506.718832] type=1505 audit(1289932213.729:46716): operation="profile_replace" pid=9268 name="/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-*bin" Nov 16 19:30:13 p-hp-u kernel: [28506.719106] type=1505 audit(1289932213.729:46717): operation="profile_replace" pid=9268 name="/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-*bin//firefox_java" Nov 16 19:30:13 p-hp-u kernel: [28506.719488] type=1505 audit(1289932213.729:46718): operation="profile_replace" pid=9268 name="/usr/lib/firefox-3.6.12/firefox-*bin//firefox_openjdk" But the messages continued. Then 2a. close all firefox windows 2b. sudo apparmor_parser -r -W -T /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox 2c. start firefox Messages continued to continue. 3. The minimal series of steps necessary to make it happen, where step 1 is "start the program" 0 Boot up and Log in 1 Firefoxtrot. 2 read syslog (optional) ** Affects: apparmor (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- syslog overflowing with apparmor audit ptrace firefox-*bin messages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs