From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: when normal user logs in /etc/profile (as on the default setup package for RedHat 6.2) runs and try to setup ulimit -c 1000000, the hardlimit is set to 500000, so this call always fails with the following message: ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as root 2. su -l ${NORMALUSER} 3. Actual Results: ulimit: cannot raise limit: Operation not permitted Expected Results: no error Additional info: considering that an error message is being shown on what is a normal procedure that was working before the kernel upgrade, a patch to fix the /etc/profile to reflect this new core size limit should be applied on postinstallation or the core size kept as it was before.
Created attachment 84145 [details] patch to /etc/profile to set the core to the new maximum (package setup)
only tested with the i686 enterprise kernel
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