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%ALIGN-3-SPURIOUS: Spurious memory access made at 0x60988D34 reading 0x0
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Description
On Cisco devices, a Spurious Memory Access occurs when an IOS
process attempts to read from the lowest 16KB region of memory. This is
always a software bug because access to this region is restricted.
There are two ways to detect spurious memory accesses:
Execute the router# show align hidden EXEC command
Check the router logs using the router# show log EXEC command
Spurious memory accesses are also reported in crashinfo files, usually displayed just before the stack dump.
Spurious memory accesses are not fatal on on MIPS-based platforms
because IOS returns a null value to the calling routine and displays
the errors above. However, spurious memory accesses will cause a
PowerPC-based platform to crash with a SegV (Segment Violation)
exception.
Report issue to Cisco and get the necessary bug fix.
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