Re: [Ltib] Installation problems with Mandriva 2009.1 (mtd-utils)

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Mark,

There's some separate issues here.

1/ Previously with fake-provide, the rpmbuild completed but core-dumped 
(SIGABRT).  So there's something wrong with /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild I 
think, or some new failure mechanism I haven't seen before.

On the subsequent run as it had already built fake-provides it installed 
this (it calls rpm, not rpmbuild to do that) and presumably it then went 
on to build the other host packages and install them.

The odd thing here is why does fake-provides cause such a problem?

2/ I think the platform selection screen is correctly working.  If you 
remove: .config (top level of ltib), and then run: ./ltib you should see 
this screen:

    Platform choice (Hit enter to select)  --->

You should then hit the Enter key and see:
(X) Hit enter to select
( ) Future Designs, Inc. ARM9DIMM-LPC3250 board
( ) senTec COBRA5475 Coldfire/M68k (MMU)
( ) Embedded Artists 3131 board with the NXP LPC313X SoC
( ) EP93xx development board
( ) Freescale IMX21 ADS reference board

Use the up/down arrow to highlight the platform you want, then hit Enter 
to select.  Your choice should be show and the Load/Save .. 
Configuration File.  At this point use the right arrow key to highlight 
'Exit' and hit Enter to save your selection.  You will be then taken to 
the selected platforms configuration menu.

Once in the platform config file, just accept the defaults (for now) and 
 use the right arrow to highlight 'Exit' and then hit Enter to save the 
configuration and built it.


NOTE: even if this works, I'm concerned your /opt/ltib/usr/bin/rpmbuild 
will cause problems because of the odd fake-provides behaviour.

Regards, Stuart



Mark Craske wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I started again from scratch by removing /opt/ltib/usr and I got the
> same failure as before when I ran ./ltib
>
> However, I then invoked ./ltib again without removing any directory tree
> and it ran to completion, apparently
> because /opt/ltib/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/i686/fake-provides-1.0-5.i686.rpm
> already existed despite the first failure.
>
> However, on completion it presented a "Platform choice" configuration
> screen that no matter which platform I chose would not show me any
> configuration options except
>
> Load an Alternate Configuration File
> Save Configuration to an Alternate File
>
> When I killed that process (after choosing Freescale mpc8548cds) and
> then invoked './ltib -m config' it came up with a sensible configuration
> menu screen for that platform.
>
> Is the bad configuration screen a known error?
>
> Regards, Mark
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 11:06 +0100, 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