Re: mint mega patch 4

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

Hi there!
|>
|>> Last week I downloaded and applied all the mega patches collected by
|>> Michael, but there is still the problem that the resulting mint
|>> makes the multitos aes be very instable. (...)
|>
|> As I said before, it also has severe problems with memory protection,
|>causing every second program to crash immediately, notably my login shell.
|>
Actually, I do not use memory protection at the moment. And its not a
crash, it is just a hanging screen process, but that is also very bad :(

|>> So what could it be? This does not happen with my older version which
|>> is a fairly patched mint 1.10, but the applied patches are not very
|>> recent.
|>
|> Since mh3 was quite ok and only mh4 crashes it must be either the 'fselect
|>doesn't need spl7() anymore' patch, or the story with sticky text segments.
|>Since I doubt it's the first one, I presume it's the second one. The thing
|>I don't understand is that I understood it that way that all this is only
|>enabled if an executable has the sticky bit set on execution. None of mine
|>has is, but it crashed anyway. It's even more mysterious as not all programs
|>crash, but I fail to recognize a rule in there.
|>
I had the same behavior with only mh1 applied, so it seems to be some older
stuff causing my problem.

Ciao
Ulrich