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List:       lm-sensors
Subject:    [Ticket #1250]: Not your fault
From:       khali () linux-fr ! org (Jean Delvare)
Date:       2005-05-19 6:24:11
Message-ID: 20030809103020.29245b2d.khali () linux-fr ! org
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> I've just installed a new mobo and did a fresh install of Gentoo using
> 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 for the kernel.
> Now I've successfully emerged lm-sensors-2.7.0 and sensors works just
> fine for output. However, when it comes to sensors -s, I get the same
> output as the reporter of ticket #1250 (except I'm using different i2c
> and sensor modules).
> 
> I'll save you the boring details and strace outputs, just so much:
> the files in /proc are writable but sysctl(2) fails with EACCES.
> The only bug I can see in sensors(1) is that it does an exit(0)
> although it was not successful :-)

I just fixed that in CVS, feel free to give it a try. In now does an
exit(1) (but could be any other value if it should).

> The actual problem here lies in the grsecurity patch included in
> gentoo-sources, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26244
> if interested.

Thanks a lot for the report and all the details!

> Guess you can close this ticket.

Done. I explained about the grsecurity patch and linked to your gentoo
bug report there.

Thanks again!

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/

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