[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils

[Andy Green]

On 01/07/11 20:17, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> On 01/07/2011 08:13 PM, Andy Green wrote:
>
>>> counters haven't increased at all, my guess is that it all happened last
>>> night when I was building/testing dietlibc stuff. I'll test that
>>> hypothesis when the new kernel is built.
>>
>> Fine but what has happened with your sha512sum then?
>
> That didn't cause thousands of errors, only a handful - it wasn't being
> used much. The only thing I can think if that could have produced that

So both sha512sum binaries are giving correct results now or what?

> may alignment errors (and segfaults to go with them, as it happens) was
> what I was doing with dietlibc.
>
>> Is it the case that
>> somehow the shared libc in memory is the dietlibc one? Maybe if you
>> reboot without touching anything that touches dietlibc you won't see
>> this issue again and the whole thing is a painful lesson to leave
>> dietlibc the hell alone ^^
>
> I don't really see how. As I said, dietlibc is long uninstalled and the
> boot-up still trips this 24+1 times. I think the coreutils bug was a
> separate one. Now I just need to find what is causing the remaining few
> alignment issues.

What you should do about that is set

alignment=3

on your kernel commandline.  That'll then be the default reaction to the 
alignment fault and it should give some logging about who is the process 
with the alignment faults.

-Andy