Re: [Ltib] Installation problems with Mandriva 2009.1

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Mark,

This was bothering me so I installed virtualbox and installed 
mandriva-2009.1.  I downloaded the latest from LTIB Savannah CVS and 
after installing the missing package dependencies and sudo it built and 
installed everything without any problems.    The machine I'm on is a 
single CPU 32bit centrino:

$uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.29.1-desktop586-4mnb #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 17:37:07 EDT 
2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz GNU/Linu
$cat /etc/issue
Mandriva Linux release 2009.1 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.29.1-desktop586-4mnb on an i686 / \l

So at this point it's either something todo with your software 
environment, a bug (on 64bit) or possibly (and it's remote) a hardware 
problem (memory perhaps).  Anyhow I just wanted to let you know that 
LTIB works fine on Mandriva 2009.1 for me.

I have kept the host_install.log if you're interested (not sure it would 
reveal anything though).

Regards, Stuart


Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I've taken a look fairly closely and can't see anything obvious.  I'm a 
> bit stumped at this point.  The only suggestion I can give is to try on 
> a different machine (with a different distribution) and see if that 
> works.  If it does, then maybe it's something related to Mandriva.  As I 
> said unfortunately I don't have one of those to test and it's a fairly 
> subtle problem to track down without being able to reproduce it.
>
> Regards, Stuart
>
> Mark Craske wrote:
> > Hi Stuart,
> >
> > Here is the 'strace -f' output from "ltib 9.1.1 ($Revision: 1.40 $)"
> >
> > Regards, Mark
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 14:20 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > > Hi Mark,
> > >
> > > I looked again, some more output might help.  Can you run 'strace -f'
> > > instead of 'strace' to capture the output from the 
> > > sub-processes/threads too, this might show something.  Can you send 
> > > to me off the list, or compress it (there's an 80k limit IIRC).
> > >
> > > Regards, Stuart
> > >
> > > Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > > > Hi Mark,
> > > >
> > > > I've had a quick look but I can't see anything obvious.
> > > >
> > > > Clearly there's a problem with /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild, which is 
> > > > built by LTIB during its installation phase.  Quite what this is and 
> > > > why it should fail in this subtle way I don't know.  My suspicion 
> > > > that it is distribution related, but can't be sure.  Unfortunately I 
> > > > don't have a
> > > > Mandriva 2009.1 distro/machine so can't investigate.
> > > >
> > > > You could try removing /opt/ltib/usr (rm -rf as root) and running 
> > > > from scratch.  Please save the host_config.log as that would have 
> > > > any build errors/warnings from the rpm-fs build.  Possibly things 
> > > > may work after this, but it's unlikely.  I'm not sure what else to 
> > > > suggest other than using gdb on /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild in some way.
> > > >
> > > > ALL: has anyone successfully installed LTIB on Mandriva 2009.1 
> > > > distro, or can someone who has spare hardware/virtualisation try it?
> > > >
> > > > Regards, Stuart
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mark Craske wrote:
> > > > > Hi Stuart,
> > > > >
> > > > > My distro is Mandriva 2009.1
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried running the suggested command line.
> > > > > An immediate 'echo $?' on completion showed 134.
> > > > >
> > > > > I attach the strace output, because I can't figure out
> > > > > what is causing the abort. The actual abort occurs when
> > > > > SIGABRT, which was masked, is unmasked.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards, Mark
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 18:31 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Mark,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Which distro are you running on ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The error code coming back from the system is 6, this a SIGABRT
> > > > > > The most likely suspect is /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild
> > > > > > but it could be the shell or something else.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You could try running at the command line (all one line with no 
> > > > > > breaks):
> > > > > >
> > > > > > $ /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild --dbpath ///opt/ltib/var/lib/rpm 
> > > > > > --target i686 --define '_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0' 
> > > > > > --define '_target_cpu i686' --define '__strip strip' --define 
> > > > > > '_topdir /opt/ltib/usr/src/rpm'  --define '_prefix /opt/ltib/usr' 
> > > > > > --define '_tmppath /tmp' --define '_rpmdir 
> > > > > > /opt/ltib/usr/src/rpm/RPMS'  --define '_mandir 
> > > > > > /opt/ltib/usr/share/man' --define '_sysconfdir /opt/ltib/etc' 
> > > > > > --define '_localstatedir /var' -bb --clean --rmsource 
> > > > > > /home/mcraske/projects/ltib_attempt/savannah_ltib_latest/ltib/dist/lfs-5.1/fake-provides/fake-provides.spec 
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > and then immediately echo $?, this should be 0.  If it's 6, then 
> > > > > > maybe you can strace it to try to figure out what is causing the 
> > > > > > abort.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards, Stuart
> > > >
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