Bug 1376444

Summary: valgrind breaks due to option "--alignment=8"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Christian Stadelmann <fedora>
Component: gnome-valgrind-sessionAssignee: Debarshi Ray <debarshir>
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-15 12:42:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Valgrind sessions don't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-13.fc24.noarch

How reproducible:
I don't know.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to login to a gnome valgrind session (error detection or leak detection, doesn't matter)
2. have a look at syslog

Actual results:
Session immediately exits.
valgrind complains:

valgrind: Bad option: --alignment=8
valgrind: Alignment must be a power of 2 in the range 16..4096.
valgrind: Use --help for more information or consult the user manual

Expected results:
Session should run, valgrind should only get valid input

Additional info:
simply removing the "--alignment=8" fixes the issue for me.

Comment 1 Debarshi Ray 2017-07-26 15:59:48 UTC
The man page says:

       --alignment=<number> [default: 8 or 16, depending on the platform]
           By default Valgrind's malloc, realloc, etc, return a block whose
           starting address is 8-byte aligned or 16-byte aligned (the value
           depends on the platform and matches the platform default). This
           option allows you to specify a different alignment. The supplied
           value must be greater than or equal to the default, less than or
           equal to 4096, and must be a power of two.

I guess things have changed in the last eleven years (bug 216517). 8 might have been a valid value (or the default?) on the relevant architectures back then. However, since this is a noarch package, I agree that the best recourse is to drop the --alignment parameter completely.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2017-07-26 16:55:31 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-15.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4b45b98198

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-07-26 16:57:22 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3532b06ebc

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2017-07-27 09:19:02 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8e5d529299

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2017-07-27 22:51:01 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8e5d529299

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2017-07-27 23:23:12 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3532b06ebc

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2017-07-28 01:52:12 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-15.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4b45b98198

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2017-08-07 01:20:22 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2017-08-09 15:57:30 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-15.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2017-08-09 19:58:15 UTC
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.