What are libjbigi.so & libjcpuid.so files?

davidshen84 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 314

Only recently, I saw these two files pop up in my home directory. I tried to remove them, but they pop up again and again. Even after I removed them, the whole system seems to be working fine.

I think they started to pop up after I emerged some new packages, but I do not remember which package.
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:02 am Post subject:

These two file are provided by net-libs/nativebiginteger but is stranger that are pop up in your home directory
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

Perhaps he has installed some package that is trying to bundle those libraries. Remounting the home directory as noexec might break the culprit enough to produce an interesting error message. He could also try replacing those files with stubs that his user cannot overwrite.

davidshen84 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 314

After much test, I guess the bad guy is net-p2p/vuze-5.7.2.0-r1.

Do you guys think it is a bug, or just a bad practice?
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 11:56 am Post subject:

davidshen84 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 314

Have you run it?
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 9:24 am Post subject:

davidshen84 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 314

Well, on my machine, these files are created right after I launch the Vuze client.

Interestingly, I changed the owner of them to root and the mode to 600. The Vuze client still can work without any problem.
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