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.
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.
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-15.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-4b45b98198
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc25 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 25. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-3532b06ebc
gnome-valgrind-session-1.1-14.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-8e5d529299
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.