From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 18 20:17:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE224106569D for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A04C8FC1F for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:17:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:3cdb:2258:176f:831b] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:3cdb:2258:176f:831b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 97DDB3C; Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:17:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48A9D8D5.7050504@andric.com> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:17:25 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17pre (Windows/20080815) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <7d6fde3d0808172305h219231e2sad939eacb685414e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0808172305h219231e2sad939eacb685414e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible regression with 200807 amd64 snapshot CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:17:28 -0000 On 2008-08-18 08:05, Garrett Cooper wrote: > When trying to install 7.0-RELEASE on amd64 with the snapshot CD for > 8.0-CURRENT, I'm running into issues where I can't seem to install > because the installer gets to a point where it just quits with a -1 > exit code. > > Looking at the console I see a load of "cpio: malformed number" > messages scroll by the screen, which makes me think that the issue > lays with either the integrity of the archives received, or there's a > bug with cpio that's included in the snapshot CD. It's the same with 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-disc1.iso. Even GNU cpio doesn't eat the files (for example base.??): cpio: Malformed number 000755 cpio: Malformed number 000000 [...] file(1) says the uncompressed data looks like a POSIX tar archive, and GNU tar can uncompress it alright: drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:07 ./bin/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./boot/ dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./dev/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:04 ./lib/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:02 ./libexec/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./media/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./mnt/ dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./proc/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:04 ./rescue/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./root/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./sbin/ drwxrwxrwt root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./tmp/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 06:49 ./usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-16 06:49 ./var/ lrwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 2008-07-15 23:59 ./sys -> usr/src/sys -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 786 2008-07-16 00:08 ./.cshrc -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 253 2008-07-16 00:08 ./.profile -r--r--r-- root/wheel 6188 2008-07-16 00:08 ./COPYRIGHT [...] While GNU cpio shows something completely different: dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./bin/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./boot/ dr-sr-x--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./dev/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./etc/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./lib/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./libexec/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./media/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./mnt/ dr-sr-x--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./proc/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./rescue/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./root/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./sbin/ drwsrws--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./tmp/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 10 2006 ./usr/ dr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 10 2006 ./var/ lr-sr-s--T 1 0 root 0 Feb 7 2006 ./sys -> usr/src/sys -r-Sr-S--- 1 0 root 6288 Feb 7 2006 ./.cshrc ---------- 1 0 root 0 Jul 15 23:59 . ---------- 1 0 root 0 Jul 15 23:59 . ---------- 1 0 root 0 Jul 15 23:59 . ---------- 1 0 root 0 Jul 15 23:59 . [...] Those permissions look weird... and the entries after .cshrc are seriously screwed up.