Not sure if your strace log has anything to do with intelmetool.

I did on your strace log the following (and in RED is possible cause of your problems):

[zoran@localhost projects]$ cat crash.log | grep ENOENT
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/root/.pciids-cache", O_RDONLY)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/udev/hwdb.bin", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[zoran@localhost projects]$ 

I guess, you have one very important missing file in your Linux configuration, this one: /etc/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin... /etc/udev/hwdb.bin ?!

Here is good read:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hwdb.html
http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.pl?topic=systemd-hwdb&ampsect=8

Have no idea who is creating this file, but you can check your Linux distro / tree with the following paths to find hwdb.bin:

/etc/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin
/etc/udev/hwdb.bin                    <<======= In my Fedora rawhide VM (future Fedora 26) I have here hwdb.bin =======
/usr/lib/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin
/lib/systemd/hwdb/hwdb.bin

If you don't have in any, please, create one with the following link:
http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.pl?topic=systemd-hwdb&ampsect=8

Please, let us know!

Zoran

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Shawn <citypw@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

intelmetool occurs "segfault" on my laptop running Mint 18 with
PaX/Grsecurity 4.7.10. The PCI info:

-[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM
Registers [8086:1904]
           +-02.0  Intel Corporation Sky Lake Integrated Graphics [8086:1916]
           +-04.0  Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal
Subsystem [8086:1903]
           +-14.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI
Controller [8086:9d2f]
           +-14.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal
subsystem [8086:9d31]
           +-15.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C
Controller [8086:9d60]
           +-15.1  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C
Controller [8086:9d61]
           +-16.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI [8086:9d3a]
           +-1c.0-[01]----00.0  NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX
960M] [10de:139b]
           +-1c.4-[02]----00.0  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD
Controller [144d:a802]
           +-1c.6-[03]----00.0  Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit
Ethernet Controller [1969:e0a1]
           +-1c.7-[04]----00.0  Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac
Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e]
           +-1d.0-[05]----00.0  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD
Controller [144d:a802]
           +-1d.2-[06-3e]--
           +-1f.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller [8086:9d48]
           +-1f.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC [8086:9d21]
           +-1f.3  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio [8086:9d70]
           \-1f.4  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus [8086:9d23]

The crash log was attached! I'm not sure if intelmetool support
Skylake as well. One tiny feature of PaX/Grsecurity prevent the ioperm
for killing the potential threats in case which
the adversary re-flash the SPI ROM once they get the root priv. It
does affect flashrom but intelmetool. I also ran intelmetool on the
distro( Mint 18) kernel and got the same result.


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GPL protect it...
God blessing it...

regards
Shawn

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