>>>>>> 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@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@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.
Any idea what provides the memcheck tool?
[root@cypher bin]# ./valgrind --leak-check=yes rpm -q glibc
valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'x86-linux': No
such file or directory
[root@cypher bin]#
Peter
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