[Fedora-livecd-list] F9-x86_64: setarch i686 not working anymore?

Sebastian Vahl ml at deadbabylon.de
Sun Sep 7 09:53:44 UTC 2008


Am Samstag, 6. September 2008 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 10:41 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 6. September 2008 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
> > > Also, 'setarch i686 uname -m' should give basically the same
> > > information for what arch is used
> >
> > The output of this is the correct "i686".
> >
> > I'm not sure about this but I think this behaviour was introduced by
> > yum-3.2.19. And maybe it's related that commands like "LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > yum ...." are also not working anymore.
>
> What's the output of
>  i686 python -c 'import rpmUtils.arch ; print rpmUtils.arch.getBaseArch()'
>
> Also, make sure you don't have an /etc/rpm/platform as that overrides
> anything from uname()

Ah, thanks. It was present on my machine. After I removed it setarch is 
working normal.

Sebastian
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