koji rawhide ppc64 build failing due to strange error?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:27 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Mamoru Tasaka (mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) said:
>>> After koji began to accept jobs again, all dist-f10 ppc64 builds seem
>>> to be failing due to some strange error?
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=710447
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=710455
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=710471
>>>
>>> None of them have build.log and root.log say:
>>>
>>> DEBUG util.py:272:  Executing command: ['rpm', '-Uvh', '--nodeps', '/builddir/build/originals/xscreensaver-5.05.90.3-3.fc10.src.rpm']
>>> DEBUG util.py:250:  memory alloc (41 bytes) returned NULL.
>>>
>>> Would someone investigate what is happening here?
>>
>> Almost certianly the new rpm broke.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Yeah, that's coming from rpm in the chroot.  I can easily reproduce.
> I'm going to untag the new rpm until we sort this out.  It'll be a bit
> before builds start working again.

Ugh :-/ Can you reproduce that outside of koji, and if so, how? Is this a 
ppc64 specific thing or a more generic one?

 	- Panu -