Bug#427661: boinc-client: causes unaligned trap errors

[Jim Woodruff]

Package: boinc-client
Version: 5.8.17-2
Severity: normal

boinc-client is filing my /var/log/message log with the following:
Jun  5 07:57:46 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfcd04 2d 0
Jun  5 07:57:46 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccf4 2d 0
Jun  5 07:57:56 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccf4 2d 0
Jun  5 07:57:56 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccfc 2d 0
Jun  5 07:57:56 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfcd04 2d 0
Jun  5 07:57:56 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccf4 2d 0
Jun  5 07:58:07 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccf4 2d 0
Jun  5 07:58:07 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccfc 2d 0
Jun  5 07:58:07 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfcd04 2d 0
Jun  5 07:58:07 freyr kernel: boinc_client(10198): unaligned trap at 0000020000683474: 000000011fdfccf4 2d 0

These messages occur every 10 seconds, which makes a huge log file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: alpha

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages boinc-client depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.102            Add and remove users and groups
ii  ca-certificates         20070303         Common CA Certificates PEM files
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.13           Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6.1                 2.5-10           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcurl4-openssl        7.16.2-4         Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070528-1 GCC support library
ii  libidn11                0.6.5-1          GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53                1.6.dfsg.1-4     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8e-5         SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070528-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                3.1-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                  2.4.4-6          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3-15       compression library - runtime

boinc-client recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  boinc-client/remove_boinc_dir: false