No i386 images in rawhide,

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Tue Apr 7 10:13:59 UTC 2009


On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Peter Robinson wrote:

>>> 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?
>
> Its just plain rpm. An example doing a simple package query gives me
> the following
>
> [root at cypher ~]# rpm -q glibc
> error: Unterminated {: {_%{_keyringpath}/*.k
>  0< /
> error: /: reading of public key failed.
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
> error: Unterminated {: {_%{_dbpat???
>  0< /
> error: cannot open Packages database in /
> package glibc is not installed
> [root at cypher ~]#
>
> Let me know if you want me to do further testing.

Smells strongly of memory corruption... Can you run the same with 
valgrind?

# valgrind --leak-check=yes rpm -q glibc

Thanks,

 	- Panu -




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