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@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
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