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.

Oh and btw, "rpm --showrc" and strace of the failing run might provide 
some clues.

 	- Panu -