No i386 images in rawhide,

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Peter Robinson wrote:

>>>>> Basically the only thing on the box that's rawhide is glibc which is
>>>>> about where it got to before it barfed.
>>>>
>>>> Ahhah, this might be an all-important clue:
>>>> * Wed Apr  1 2009 Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> 2.9.90-12
>>>> - update from trunk
>>>> - configure with --enable-experimental-malloc
>>>>
>>>> Note "experimental malloc", Apr 1st is the first known occurrence
>>>> of what appears to be memory corruption, and except for glibc, you
>>>> have
>>>> essentially F10 system exhibiting this issue. It's at least a rather
>>>> promising lead if nothing else.
>>>>
>>>>> If you contact me off list I can give you a login to the device to
>>>>> investigate if you like.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I might contact you later depending on where the trail
>>>> leads :)
>>>
>>> I didn't see a bug filed for this issue already.  I've filed the
>>> following bug to track this issue.
>>>
>>> Bug#494867 - "Rawhide i386 fails to boot - not syncing: No init found."
>>>
>>> It's currently assigned to the 'rpm' component, but I suspect that will
>>> change with further analysis.
>>
>> FYI, it's glibc-2.9.90-12 i586-version that's broken, i686 version works
>> just fine. And there's apparently a bug in yum that makes it pick i586 over
>> i686 on some situations. Thanks to Jesse Keating for hunting it down.
>
> So is it fixed in rawhide now or is it still pending?

glibc-2.9.90-14 has the experimental malloc disabled but apparently that 
is not the problem, i586 glibc is still broken:

bash-4.0# rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.9.90-14.i586.rpm 
glibc-2.9.90-14.i586.rpm
error: failed to open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
    1:glibc                  ########################################### [ 
50%]
    2:glibc-common           ########################################### 
[100%]
bash-4.0# rpm -q glibc
error: Unterminated {: {_%{_keyringpath}/*.k
   0< /
error: /: reading of public key failed.
package glibc is not installed

 	- Panu -