[racket] sandbox error

From: Lucas Paul (reilithion at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 14 15:11:36 EST 2015

>From DrRacket (which is where I see the problem):

Welcome to DrRacket, version 6.1.1 [3m].
Language: racket [custom]; memory limit: 128 MB.
> (require setup/dirs)
  (find-lib-dir)
  (get-lib-search-dirs)
#<path:/usr/lib/racket>
'(#<path:/home/lucas/.racket/6.1.1/lib> #<path:/usr/lib/racket>
#<path:/usr/lib>)
>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Trying "/usr/lib/libcrypto" with no suffix is a last-ditch effort. It
> accommodates a library request where the given library name has a
> suffix already; in this case, "libcrypto" is provided without the
> suffix (and the search adds an ".so" suffix and version numbers).
>
> I don't yet have another idea why the search might fails. Just to make
> sure, what does
>
>   (require setup/dirs)
>   (find-lib-dir)
>   (get-lib-search-dirs)
>
> produce for your installation?
>
> At Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:07:45 -0700, Lucas Paul wrote:
>> I have a couple of those:
>>
>> /usr/lib/libcrypto.so
>> /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>>
>> I haven't changed anything, and the error is still here (thank
>> goodness for Bohr bugs). Anyway, the error doesn't say anything about
>> "/usr/lib/libcrypto.so" it wants exists? access to
>> "/usr/lib/libcrypto", which I find a little strange. Is it looking for
>> a directory?
>>
>> Lucas
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > I think `scribble/manual` is trying to load "libcrypto" as part of
>> > using OpenSSL for its SHA1 functionality.
>> >
>> > I haven't been able to replicate the error that you're getting, and my
>> > best guess is that we need to add a version of libcrypto to our list.
>> > Does your installation have any of these?
>> >
>> >  libcrypto.so
>> >  libcrypto.so.1.0.1e
>> >  libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> >  libcrypto.so.1.0
>> >  libcrypto.so.0.9.8b
>> >  libcrypto.so.0.9.8
>> >  libcrypto.so.0.9.7
>> >
>> > If you have some other "libcrypto", then a symbolic link from
>> > "libcrypto.so" to that version should work around the problem.
>> >
>> > At Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:55:37 -0700, Lucas Paul wrote:
>> >> Hi. I'm trying to use a racket sandbox to safely evaluate some
>> >> scribble code, but I'm having trouble setting up the sandbox in the
>> >> first place. The following produces an error on my system:
>> >>
>> >> (make-evaluator 'racket/base #:requires '(scribble/manual scribble/racket))
>> >>
>> >> The error is:
>> >>
>> >>
>> ../../../../../../../usr/share/racket/collects/racket/private/so-search.rkt:37:
>> >> 20:
>> >> file-exists?: `exists' access denied for /usr/lib/libcrypto
>> >>
>> >> I'm running Racket 6.1.1 on Arch Linux x86_64. The exact same code
>> >> seems to work correctly for Michael Ballantyne with Racket 6.1 on a
>> >> Mac. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a reason Scribble needs
>> >> libcrypto? Is this a bug I should report? I truly don't know what's
>> >> going on.
>> >>
>> >> Please help,
>> >> Lucas
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