Tag Archives: Linux

Running IDA 7.x/8.x inside Crossover 21/22

For a few versions I had issues running IDA Pro in Crossover with IDAPython enabled. Prior to the starting issues, everything worked fine, e.g. in the IDA 6.x version range. Please note that the setup of IDA Pro also succeeded … Continue reading

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ecryptfs and sshd, again

In January I described an issue with ecryptfs and sshd. Now I wanted to get X11 forwarding to work with it, but the problem essentially remains the same. All I got this time was: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: timeout in locking authority file … Continue reading

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Not Valgrind, CDPATH

The problem I described just yesterday (here) seems not be to with Valgrind in particular. Today I was trying to build the file(1) utility and mysteriously failed with the same symptoms. So that made me curious. Apparently the cd command … Continue reading

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Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3

I’ve been trying this already several times over the last three months, but always failed to build the latest Valgrind from sources on my Debian box. At last I had success. The problem appears to be that for some unknown … Continue reading

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