many many error messages in kernel log : 4gb seg fixup, process acroread

Ken Tanzer ktanzer at desc.org
Thu Jan 11 19:58:54 UTC 2007


Thanks for the suggestions.  I ended up rebooting into the non-xen 
kernel (2.6.18-1.2869), and these messages disappeared.

Ken

David Timms wrote:
> Ken Tanzer wrote:
>> John Q. reported this problem on 12/31, with no reply.  We are seeing 
>> the same problem in our logs.  Does anyone have an idea how to solve 
>> it, or even some suggestions for troubleshooting or investigating?  
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> Hello fedora-list,
>>>
>>> I have fedora FC6 on i386 machine with latest acroread. (7.0.8).
>>> When starting acroerad and all the time it is opened I see many
>>> many error messages in the kernel log:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Dec 31 12:27:47 rr kernel: printk: 7133 messages suppressed.
>>> Dec 31 12:27:47 rr kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process acroread (pid
>>> 14328), cs:ip 73:00d719f7
>>> Dec 31 12:27:52 rr kernel: printk: 2743 messages suppressed.
>>> Dec 31 12:27:52 rr kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process acroread (pid
>>> 14328), cs:ip 73:00d719f7
>>>
>>> ....
>>> This messages appear each second , which means thousands messages in a
>>> second.
>>>
>>> At the second I close the app, these messages stop.
>>> Any idea why ?
> Maybe ps aux|grep acro and post that.
> Are you displaying pdf file at the time you are seeing the message ?
> This could be just with the firefox plugin as well ?
> If you tail -f /var/log/messages  and start/stop acrobat, do the 
> messages start / stop ?
>
> If you use the fc6 Evince 0.6.0 to view a pdf does the message continue ?
> It seems to be a bug in the upstream acroread itself, and if so it 
> might be worth searching adobe's web site for faq/forums/bugzilla's, 
> and posting your experiences there.
>
> DaveT.
>
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