[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Edge-Case:
My bad, as soon as I got into recovery I flashed a known working zip.

I am going to keep trying to build a custom kernel but I would like to figure out how to configure it within my source tree and let it get compiled with a rom.

but here is a cat of /proc/last_kmsg just incase it survived.

[ 0.000000] Truncating memory at 0xc0000000 to fit in 32-bit physical address space
[ 0.000000] smem_find(137, 80): wrong size 72
[ 0.023561] AXI: msm_bus_fabric_init_driver(): msm_bus_fabric_init_driver
[ 0.056035] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056035] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056065] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056065] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056065] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056096] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056096] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.056096] msm_rpm_get_status(): Status id 433 not defined for target
[ 0.076056] msm_gpiomux_install: write failure: -14
[ 0.076056] msm_gpiomux_install: write failure: -14
[ 0.076056] msm_gpiomux_install: write failure: -14
[ 0.076087] msm_gpiomux_install: write failure: -14
[ 0.125194] [msm8960_init_cam:1572]setting done!!
[ 0.177262] i2c i2c-14: Invalid 7-bit I2C address 0x00
[ 0.177384] i2c i2c-14: Can't create device at 0x00
[ 0.177872] i2c i2c-19: Failed to register i2c client cmc624 at 0x38 (-16)
[ 0.177964] i2c i2c-19: Can't create device at 0x38
[ 0.178483] Error-Bad Function Input
[ 0.179185] max8952 19-0060: DVS modes disabled because VID0 and VID1 do not have proper controls.
[ 0.407630] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: scm_pas
[ 0.418953] smd_channel_probe_worker: allocation table not initialized
[ 0.429757] msm_ipc_router_init: Unable to create IPC logging for IPC RTR
[ 0.430581] msm_ipc_router_ipc_log_init: Unable to create IPC logging for Req/Resp
[ 0.430856] msm_ipc_router_ipc_log_init: Unable to create IPC logging for Indications
[ 0.437082] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: acpuclk-8960
[ 0.473950] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: dtv
[ 0.477857] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: mdp
[ 0.491316] pm_runtime: fail to wake up
[ 0.991881] hdmi_msm hdmi_msm.1: external_common_state_create: sysfs group eeb42a08
[ 0.993804] Inside writeback_driver_init
[ 0.994353] Inside writeback_probe
[ 1.534289] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: rotator
[ 1.548023] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: grp3d
[ 1.558583] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: grp2d0
[ 1.568686] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: grp2d1
[ 1.602289] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: qsee
[ 1.789500] cm36651_setup_reg: initial proximity value = 0
[ 1.910697] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: usb
[ 1.930016] mms_ts 3-0048: [TSP] ISC Ver [0xbd] [0x22] [0x22]
[ 1.934777] mms_ts 3-0048: [TSP] fw is latest. Do not update.
[ 1.947077] [__s5c73m3_probe:3868] S5C73M3 probe
[ 1.950862] [s5c73m3_sensor_probe_cb:3843] Entered
[ 1.955562] [s5c73m3_i2c_probe:3725] Entered
[ 1.959896] [s5c73m3_init_client:3424] Entered
[ 1.965359] [s5c73m3_i2c_probe:3745] Exit
[ 1.968655] [s5c73m3_sensor_probe:3776] Entered
[ 1.973081] [s5c73m3_spi_init:226] Entered
[ 1.977170] [s5c73m3_spi_probe:191] Entered
[ 1.981321] [s5c73m3_spi_probe:201] s5c73m3_spi successfully probed
[ 1.987669] [s5c73m3_sensor_probe : 3799] Probe_done!!
[ 2.042698] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: msm_sdcc
[ 2.049076] couldn't get usb power supply
[ 2.057530] mmc0: No card detect facilities available
[ 2.064153] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: msm_sdcc
[ 2.081245] AXI: msm_bus_scale_register_client(): msm_bus_scale_register_client: name: msm_sdcc
[ 2.093575] aat1290a_led_probe : Probe
[ 2.378849] bam_dmux_init : unable to create IPC Logging Context
[ 2.419594] cypress_touchkey 16-0020: Touchkey FW Version: 0x06
[ 2.534594] init: invalid uid 'fm_radio'
[ 2.950068] enable_store: android_usb: already disabled
[ 2.954768] init: Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property errno: 2
[ 87.924614] SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
[ 88.153181] Restarting system.

No errors detected

Maybe disabling Android's Paranoid Networking breaks other things?

If this wont work, maybe I will try writing a post installation script for apt-get and try to get Android to recognize the new packages nd define some permission for that .xml file I know is hiding somewhere. I might have to create a database of permissions required for all the packages in the repos (that would suck). But really, if I could just get basic Linux filesystem permissions I wouldn't need to do all of that. That whole, "only allow certain groups to create sockets" option is pulling the chair out from under me. I'll have to study the source for the filesystem a little deeper, maybe I can disable it (or at least allow root) from the source without taking it out of the kernel config.

For instance, postgresql needs to open a socket and bind to a port, it tries ipv4 an ipv6 AF_INET and AF_INET6, and this paranoid feature will check the processes gid as well as other permissions I think to see if it can. So I tried setting the gid bit to run /etc/init.d/postrgresql as gid AID_INET but it still fails, probably because the file is not listed in that .xml file I mentioned earlier. I think a post installation script might work best if I can't turn the feature off or fix it to be more permissive.