[fedora-arm] Broken sha512sum in coreutils / forcing alignment fixup and logging in initscripts

[Andy Green]

On 01/09/11 12:09, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

>> Sounds right.  The user is going to google why his log is filling with
>> these warnings if he cares and the problem is bad, and this covers his
>> code as well as distro code (with the small window where the alignment
>> policy is still 0 from running init through actually setting the
>> alignment policy to fix+log if he doesn't know about the kernel parameter).
>>
>> If he doesn't use Fedora initscripts, then he's at the mercy of the
>> kernel default alignment policy of "mangle data silently" but that's not
>> a Fedora problem.
>
> In can, however, see one good argument for warn+signal, and that is that
> abrt already picks up crashes for reporting so no change would be
> required there. Also a core dump would be useful to pin down the errors
> that aren't trivial to reproduce.

Signal is pretty violent if, for example, once in a blue moon even init 
or sshd can blow an alignment fault for some reason.  It'd be very 
interesting to find it in the logs but less interesting to find your 
embedded Fedora device at the bottom of the ocean can't be logged into 
any more for no real reason.

-Andy