No i386 images in rawhide,

[Panu Matilainen]

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
>
> Hmm. don't have valgrind installed and rpm is screwed so I can't.....
> suggestions?

rpm2cpio should work even if rpm is otherwise screwed (and if even that 
fails, there's a script version in /usr/lib/rpm/rpm2cpio.sh). Also just a 
strace might provide some clues, if you have that installed.

 	- Panu -