Bug 198574

Summary: firefox unaligned access messages
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bryan Stillwell <stillwell>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: chuck.morrison, rick.hester
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Description Bryan Stillwell 2006-07-12 00:42:47 UTC
Description of problem:
When choosing to configure connection settings in firefox, multiple unaligned
access messages are written to the console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.5.0.3-2

How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox
2. Click on Edit
3. Choose Preferences
4. In the General tab, click on the 'Connection Settings' button
5. Notice the unaligned access messages
  
Actual results:
firefox-bin(31460): unaligned access to 0x60000ffffed44acf, ip=0x2000000008b0e9f0
firefox-bin(31460): unaligned access to 0x60000ffffed44acf, ip=0x20000000010f4651
firefox-bin(31460): unaligned access to 0x60000ffffed44acf, ip=0x20000000010f4840
firefox-bin(31460): unaligned access to 0x60000ffffed44acf, ip=0x2000000008af9600
firefox-bin(31460): unaligned access to 0x60000ffffed44acf, ip=0x2000000005776ce1



Expected results:
no output

Additional info:
Moving around in the preferences menus produces more messages in different areas.

Comment 1 Bryan Stillwell 2006-07-12 00:44:36 UTC
This was in rhel5a1.  I had to choose rhel4 because rhel5 wasn't an option.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-08 20:42:48 UTC
Since this bugzilla report was filed, we have seriously upgraded Gecko-related
packages, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this
problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their
distribution available.

Please, confirm to us that this bug is reproducible on the latest upgrade of the
supported distribution (that's RHEL, or Fedora 7, 8, and Rawhide).

Setting the bug to NEEDINFO. If I won't get confirmation of reproducability in
30 days, the bug will be closed as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.

[This is mass-changing of bugs which seem to be too old and irrelevant anymore;
we are sorry, if this bug should not be incldued.]

Comment 3 Bryan Stillwell 2008-02-08 22:29:31 UTC
Still exists in rhel5.1/ia64

Comment 4 Bryan Stillwell 2008-02-08 22:40:15 UTC
Changing status back to ASSIGNED

Comment 5 Yolkfull Chow 2008-07-01 09:19:42 UTC
This problem also happen on firefox-3.0.1 over ia64 though I haven't been enable
to catch the exact steps.

Comment 6 Chuck Morrison 2008-09-16 21:22:03 UTC
Trying this on a rhel5.2 dom0(Firefox-3.0-b5/ia64), I don't see the messages that this bz was filed about. However, I get these messages over and over and over (in dmesg) :

Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version
Allowing physinfo call with newer ABI version

I don't see this issue when trying it on rhel5.2 (Firefox-3.0-b5/ia64) in a PV domU.

Comment 7 Rick Hester 2010-01-25 21:24:58 UTC
closing due to age