No i386 images in rawhide,

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Peter Robinson wrote:

>>> Details please? Actual rpmdb *corruption* is rare, it's almost always
>>> something else. "Last couple of days" sounds like it could be the
>>> related to the NSS caused breakage.
>>
>> When on an x86_64 system and trying to compose an i386 install tree, the
>> buildinstall process falls over when trying to compose the image due to
>> what looks like rpmdb corruption, but could be something else.  Note
>> that we explicitly rm -f the /var/lib/rpm/__db* files before running
>> pungi (buildinstall).  I am not able to reproduce outside our build
>> environment, and even outside this particular host, yet.  Still
>> investigating.
>>
>> http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20090403/logs/i386.log
>
> I'm getting that exact error on a Fit-PC machine (AMD Geode of similar
> spec to the OLPC) that's running Fedora 10. I went to upgrade it on
> the weekend to F11 beta. As part of the yum upgrade I did a "yum
> upgrade rpm yum" which of course pulled in python. The geode is
> capable of cmov so it has a i686 glibc installed (but it complains
> about the arch) so rather than installing the i386 F10 glibc so it
> would go smoothly I used rpm to install the F11 i586 glibc package.
> Everything runs fine but I get the same errors with rpm so its stuck
> in that state at the moment. I went to do a clean install of F11 but X
> fell over (which worked on F10 install) so I haven't bothered to go
> any further if you want me to run some tests.

Hmm, Geode doesn't fit the NSS-case as it's not multilib. Please post the 
exact errors you're seeing and the command that produced it. Also, does 
rpm itself work (ie is it just yum that's busted) and if not, what errors 
you get from that?

 	- Panu -