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Any suggestions for how to get mprotect to work with Kubuntu 14.04 (based on linux-3.14.6 with the corresponding gresecurity patch)?

With mprotect globally off, the system seems to work fine, so far.
But once I enable it, I can't get a normal login screen.
I can drop to tty, and from there have tried disabling mprotect just on /usr/bin/Xorg via paxctl. That hasn't made any difference.

What else should I try?

(sorry if I posted this already -- I don't see it in the threads list; maybe because I am new to this board?)

did you look at dmesg? grsec should report attempts that violate the MPROTECT policy. in general, you'll have to handle:

• libraries with text relocations (an i386 problem, should mostly be fixed upstream these days i think)
• executables/libraries with bad GNU_STACK headers (either missing or with RWE rights)
• JIT compiler engines (mesa, javascript, etc)

PS: only the first post is moderated (to prevent spam), later ones go through unmoderated.

Seems to be fixed with exclusion of
/usr/sbin/lightdm-kde-greeter
/usr/bin/plasma-desktop
and
/usr/bin/kwin