> 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/
