On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:16 -0700, jerry ondola wrote:
--- mental@...3... wrote:
Are you using any special kernel build options?
-mental
nothing special, just grsec
So I guess you're joking? "Nothing special," but grsecurity? There's a reason that grsecurity doesn't end up in the mainline kernel. Hint: It's not that mainline kernel developers don't care about security. Of course, this might still mean that gc actually uses something that lies on the limits of what is guaranteed by POSIX, it's just that grsecurity is likely breaking something that many believe is an accepted standard.
Truely blatant breaking of POSIX rules often gets hammered by Exec- shield and pals in Fedora; Inkscape seems fine here as far as I can see, so grsecurity seems like a likely problem candidate.
Jerry, any chance you can try with a more mainstream kernel? If not a vanilla 2.6.11.<latest> then perhaps whatever your distro feels like distributing?
/Per