Rich B asked:
I use uWSGI on ubuntu 18 (18.04.5 LTS). Very recently this stopped working – I’d get this error on startup:
Fatal Python error: Cannot recover from MemoryErrors while normalizing exceptions.
Nothing had changed my side but the server was set to auto-upgrade. Running uwsgi as root worked, but as www-data (which is how I run it normally) failed.
After some trial and error it turned out that the --never-swap option was causing this – certainly when I removed that, it worked again.
So I can live with removing --never-swap, but I’d love to know why this happened. Is some new security feature preventing non-root users locking memory pages – that’s what the doc says this option does – uWSGI doc here.
My answer:
An unprivileged process needs the CAP_IPC_LOCK capability in order to lock memory pages. Most likely someone (you or another admin) set this capability manually, and then it was of course gone when a recent update was installed.
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