PaulHowarth/Blog/2008-05-19

Monday 19th May 2008

Local Packages

Over the weekend I updated my build system to Fedora 9. This was one of the most painless updates I can recall having made, and everything worked from the buildsys perspective except for mock builds for Red Hat Linux 8 and Fedora 1 targets.

For Red Hat Linux 8, I got this somewhat unexpected error message:

ERROR: Command failed: 
 # /usr/bin/yum --installroot /var/lib/mock/pptps-redhat-8-i386/root/  install buildsys-build
glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.8.i386 from updates-released has depsolving problems
  --> glibc-common conflicts with glibc
glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 from core has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 (core)
glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 from core has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 (core)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-debug-2.2.93-5.i686 (core)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.2.93-5 is needed by package glibc-2.2.93-5.i386 (core)
Error: glibc-common conflicts with glibc

By pure guesswork I tried adding to the yum.conf for the configuration:

exclude=glibc.i386

and that did the trick.

For Fedora 1, all builds failed at the point where the first command run in the chroot (groupadd as it happens), though the root.log indicated that glibc's post-install scriptlet was the first problem:

...
DEBUG util.py:250:  Transaction Summary
DEBUG util.py:250:  =============================================================================
DEBUG util.py:250:  Install     86 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Update       0 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Remove       0 Package(s)
DEBUG util.py:250:  Total download size: 77 M
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-101.4.2.legacy.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 115
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(bash-2.05b-34.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(info-4.5-2.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(sed-4.0.8-2.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
DEBUG util.py:250:  error: %post(grep-2.5.1-17.4.i386) scriptlet failed, signal 11
...

This was another manifestation of Bug #121351, which until now had only affected 32-bit host systems as far as mock was concerned. I suspect that the merge of the x86 and x86_64 trees in recent kernels is the reason why this has just cropped up, and the workaround is similar to that for 32-bit hosts. To fix it for the running kernel:

# sysctl -w abi.vsyscall32=0

For subsequent boots, add to /etc/sysctl.conf:

# FC1 glibc bug workaround (#121351)
abi.vsyscall32 = 0

Updated dovecot-sieve to 1.0.3
Updated perl-Unix-Syslog to 1.1
Updated pptp to do routing via /sbin/ip rather than /bin/ip; upstream is debian-based, and the location of the ip utility differs from Red Hat-based distributions
Updated python-twisted to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-conch to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-core to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-lore to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-mail to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-names to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-news to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-web to 8.1.0
Updated python-twisted-words to 8.1.0

Fedora Project

Updated pptp in Rawhide as per the local package

Raised Bug #447317 on smolt, which has problems with some mount table entries that have spaces in their pathnames, leading to tracebacks like this:

# smoltGui 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smoltGui", line 261, in <module>
    app = SmoltGui(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/bin/smoltGui", line 72, in __init__
    self.profile = smolt.Hardware()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 351, in __init__
    self.fss = get_file_systems()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 264, in get_file_systems
    file_systems = get_fslist()
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 100, in get_fslist
    return [FileSystem(mnt) for mnt in get_mtab()]
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 91, in get_mtab
    mtab_map = __cache_mtab__(mtab)
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 107, in __cache_mtab__
    mtab = [MntEntObj(line) for line in f.read().split('\n') if len(line) > 0]
  File "/usr/share/smolt/client/fs_util.py", line 41, in __init__
    self.mnt_freq, self.mnt_passno) = input.split()
ValueError: too many values to unpack

PPTP Client Project

Updated pptp as per the local package