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Attached to Project: Arch Linux 32
Opened by Enrique Dominguez - 13.10.2021

FS#210 - keymap don't gets fixed on login as set in /etc/vconsole.conf

gzip comes with asm code, if enabled, built a TEXTREL which gets bloqued on boot, so systemd don’t set keymap
A lot of tricks in forums, old thread more complete here $506 An old problem. Work around while asm gets fixed is call configure with DEFS=”NO_ASM” like this:

...
export DEFS="NO_ASM"
./configure ....

or,

./configure DEFS="NO_ASM" ....

I have not tested it, but gentoo on x32 have gzip like this and no TEXTRELS here.
No matter i486, i686 or pentium.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

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Andreas Baumann commented on 20.10.2021 04:51

IMHO we should not disable assembly in gzip in general just because there is a bug in
the resource restrictions in early systemd booting. Also, why does this happen only
on 32-bit and not on 64-bit?

Then I would rather opt to drop the compression of keymap and character set files
completely..

..or to find this ancient bug in (possibly) systemd. :-)

Enrique Dominguez commented on 18.11.2021 13:21

Hi, I don't get notified about your response, sorry for the delay. As far I know, it's not a bug in systemd, but gzip asm itself. On 32bits results on TEXTREL aka security flaw because you get a stack WX. Disabling asm for x32 is a temporary workaround much better than having a vulnerable binary. More here (you don't have to ship 'the big book about elf' ;) )
It's not a systemd bug this time; systemd keeps us from running a broken binary.

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