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vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none: setiathome v8.04 crashes with a SIGSEGV on Linux

vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none: setiathome v8.04 crashes with a SIGSEGV on Linux

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Message 63401 - Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 18:12:14 UTC

I suppose it doesn't matter much with SETI@home ending at the end of the month, I'm mostly posting for reference.

Setiathome v8.04 (stock app) crashes on a Debian stable box with "SIGSEGV: segmentation violation". See the task in question.

The error actually comes from vsyscall being forbidden in recent Linux kernels for security reasons. Indeed, the kernel message is more explicit:
setiathome_8.04[10957] vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7ffcbd24f948 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:7ffcbd24f960


It's a known problem which can be mitigated if the cruncher reboots with the vsyscall=emulate kernel option, but it lowers the computer's security (a bit). The actual long-term solution would be on the project side, to rebuild the app against a newer libc.
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