[PATCH RFC 0/2] Add linux/ppc64 support for Hotspot serviceability agent to read core files

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/03/2014 06:20 PM, Maynard Johnson wrote:
>> If you're running on Debian/Ubuntu it is probably this issue:
>> > 
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening#ptrace_Protection
>> > 
>> > which can be solved by doing:
>> > 
>> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
> Yes, that was the issue.  Thanks for the tip!

Good Lord, is that the default on Ubuntu?  Argh.  :-(

Andrew.