Hi Mike, Thanks for the "tips"...
Cheers, On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Mi Re <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all > > I did not find a solution for the mentioned problem here, so I'm posting > it. > > The error seems to be related to Intel's TSX extensions and specifically > HLE (Hardware Lock Elision). Some Broadwell and Haswell processors have > faulty implementations of these extensions and were later disabled by Intel > through microcode updates. > > There are two possible solutions for Linux users: > > Solution 1 (the easy one): Install the latest "intel-ucode" (on Arch > Linux) or "intel-microcode" (Ubuntu) and reboot. Check for > distribution-specific steps first. If you're lucky, iked should now run > fine. > > If the error is still present, continue reading. > > Solution 2 (the not-so-easy one): You need to rebuild your glibc package > without Lock Elision enabled. For Arch Linux, the steps are the following: > > ========== > $ sudo abs core > $ cp -r /var/abs/core/glibc /tmp > $ cd /tmp/glibc > > ( PKGBUILD: remove the line containing --enable-lock-elision with sed:) > > $ sed -i '/--enable-lock-elision/d' PKGBUILD > $ makepkg > ========== > > You then can either install the glibc globally for your system by > executing: > > $ sudo pacman -U /tmp/glibc/glibc-whatever.pkg.tar.xz > > or you unpack the built glibc package to some location that you like and > use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH mechanism to override the libs used by iked > everytime you start iked: > > $ sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LOCATION_OF_UNPACKED_TAR/usr/lib iked > > With that, iked should start without any problems. > > Instructions for other distributions on rebuilding glibc vary, but I hope > you got the idea of what needs to be done. > > I hope I could help some other Users out there. > > Thanks also to knotty66 and shuairan from the Arch User Repository. > > > Regards > Mike > _______________________________________________ > vpn-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help >
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