Re: [vserver] Chrome on a vserver

John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:41 +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 February 2010 "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello, all. Has anyone gotten the Google Chrome browser to work in a
>> > VServer? No need to spend a lot of time on this. We are prepared to
>> > go do battle with it but, if someone else has solved it already, it
>> > would save us the time. It looks like its default configuration
>> > insists in writing to /dev/shm. Am I correct to assume that is a
>> > very bad idea in a vserver guest? Thanks - John
>> >
>> > [1538:1538:4716833642534:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/base/shared_memory_posix.cc(192)]
>> > Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.xLMyJH failed:
>> > No such file or directory
>> > [1538:1538:4716833642580:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/base/shared_memory_posix.cc(194)]
>> > This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try
>> > 'sudo chmod 777 /dev/shm' to fix.
>>
>> Would it help to symlink /dev/shm to somewhere under /tmp (assuming
>> /tmp is tmpfs)? Otherwise you could add a tmpfs for /dev/shm in fstab of
>> your vserver's configuration.
>>
>> Bruno
> Apparently there is a /dev/shm in my vserver guest. For kicks, I
> changed the group to a group in which the user was a member and granted
> write rights for the group to /dev/shm. Chrome works with this.
> However, are there any security issues with allowing vserver guests to
> write to their own /dev/shm? Thanks - John

No, /dev/shm is just a temporary directory commonly put on a RAM-backed
filesystem like tmpfs.

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson