Description of problem: When installing rawhide on an rx2660 I saw the attached 'unaligned access' messages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # uname -a Linux med1-ofs.lionc.test 2.6.25-1.fc9.ia64 #1 SMP Sun Apr 20 07:00:15 EDT 2008 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup an rx2660 using the lsi1068 for the coreIO 2. Use the attached kickstart file to install on /dev/sda 3. Witness the unaligned access messages seen in the attached screenshots Actual results: multiple 'unaligned access' messages Expected results: Clean install without warnings Additional info:
Created attachment 304270 [details] kickstart script used to install on /dev/sda
Created attachment 304271 [details] First 5 unaligned access messages
Created attachment 304272 [details] Second 5 unaligned access messages
My assumption this is the same libnl issue that we recently fixed in RHEL 5.2. I will investigate but for now moving to libnl.
Package revisions: anaconda-11.4.0.75-1 libnl-1.1-3.fc9
Adding dcbw and tgraf to the CC list. This is identical to what we recently fixed in RHEL5.2 (BZ 434826). Do we want to fix this in the same way? I know there were other ideas on how to better fix this however we didn't want to break binary compatibility on RHEL5.X. Perhaps we want to implement that fix in Fedora.
The way it was fixed in RHEL5.2 is also the way I fixed this upstream. There is really is no other way unless the kernel enters an unstable cycle again allowing for the netlink protocols to break.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Closing since we are not currently building Fedora on ia64. Will re-open if this is still seen once builds begin again.