Description of problem: Unaligned accesses are made when NFS starts on ia64. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora ia64 devel, rawhide-20050719 nfs-utils-1.0.7-8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install latest Fedora ia64 devel 2. Boot. Actual results: When starting NFS the following errors are seen: Starting NFS statd: kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000b00487fce4, ip=0xa000000100545391 kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000b00487fce4, ip=0xa000000100545450 [ OK ] kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000b00487fce4, ip=0xa000000100545391 kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000b00487fce4, ip=0xa000000100545450 Expected results: No errors should be seen. Additional info: I think I had put in an earlier bug on this on another RH product (I can't recall the BZ#). If memory serves the issue is that nfs-utils needs to built with the -ftz compile flag.
The ftz flag reference above is a mistake -- I was thinking of another issue ... P.
Sure sounds familiar to RHEL3, where someplace in the NFS code was accessing a packed data structure. The text locations of the IP addresses reported above would at least nail the offender.
I believe this has been fixed in later kernels (at least I have not seen this problem lately).... If this is not the case please reopen...