Subject: Re: [vserver] grsec problem
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 18:34:37 +0100

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 05:10:03PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
> Hi, Anyone using the grsec patch come across this:

> [119277.904717] grsec: failed fork with errno EAGAIN by 
> /usr/sbin/cron[cron:4809] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent 
> /sbin/init[init:1] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0

> At boot all is well, but after "some time" I see processes within a
> vserver start to suffer from this. I suspect some resource overstep
> because restarting the vserver occurs many more such errors during
> it's shutdown, but it's all fine after it restarts? I don't really 
> see anything in the log files apart from this repeated error, so no
> help there

> Any thoughts on where to look?

known problem, update to a newer Linux-VServer patch

best,
Herbert

> I'm using kernel 2.6.36.2-grsec2.2.1-vs2.3.0.36.38.2 but with the 
> addition of the aufs patches

> Thanks for any further thoughts?
> 
> Ed W