MNT_NOEXEC flag set on / when PXE booting diskless on 5.4-R?

[Danny Braniss]

> Hi all,
> 
> I've just been trying to switch one of my FreeBSD work stations over to 
> PXE booting and running diskless (the system drive has died).
> 
> However, I've run into a problem in that it appears that the root mount 
> gets marked with MNT_NOEXEC for some reason, which causes ld-elf.so.1 to 
> barf with a message of:
> Cannot execute objects on /
> 
> The error doesn't occur for all applications, and I've narrowed it down 
> to be that whenever LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set, then ld-elf.so.1 falls over 
> with the above message.
> 
> I saw in the archives that this issue was raised back in March, but 
> there was no followup there. Message ID for that email was 
> <20050331111625.GA13338 at zoopee.org>; interested parties are recommended 
> to dig that one up.
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I couldn't find any PRs 
> (open or closed).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> /Johny
it is fixed now, but i don't remember when :-)
i think it was somewhere in then kernel nfs code

danny