Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:52:26 -0200 From: "Fernan Aguero" <fernan.aguero@gmail.com> To: vwe@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/129573: FreeBSD-7.1-RC1 fails to install man pages and doc distribution Message-ID: <520894aa0812150552t4c96b8do7dd4015be643caf1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200812140003.mBE030w0061862@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200812140003.mBE030w0061862@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM, <vwe@freebsd.org> wrote: > Synopsis: FreeBSD-7.1-RC1 fails to install man pages and doc distribution > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: vwe > State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 14 00:01:26 UTC 2008 > State-Changed-Why: > Fenan, > do you mind to show us the error messages you're seeing? > BTW, with having actually tried the beta ISOs myself (rebuilding > from source, often) I think your media is broken. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129573 > As I said, I have downloaded the images from the FreeBSD FTP site. The downloaded image MD5 checksum matches the one in the FTP site. And, the MD5 checksum of the contents of the burned CD also matches this checksum. So, if the media is broken, then it should be broken for anyone who got the image from FreeBSD. Checksum as in the FTP site: grep disc1 CHECKSUM.MD5 MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6 Check of ISO image: md5sum 7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso 116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6 7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso Check of burned CD: echo $(( $(ls -l 7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso | awk '{ print $5 }') / 2048 )) 280688 dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=280688 | md5sum 116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6 - I have not tried to build the release CDs from source, though. Regarding the error messages, these were always "Write failure on transfer! wrote -1 bytes of 1425408" I have now installed 7.1-RC1 again a few times, changing the order of the steps, and the error happens only when I try to install extra distribution packages in the post-installation phase. E.g.: 1. Boot installer 2. Select Express (quick) installation, partition and label disk 3. Select Minimal Installation AND select custom distribution packages at this time (lib32, doc, man, catman) 4. Select installation source (CD) 5. Installation is successful (including extra distrib pkgs) 6. Do post-installation configuration (root passwd, add user, configure and bring up network interface, set box as NFS client/SSH server) 7. Reboot 8. Everything is OK However, the following leads to the error: 1. Boot installer 2. Select Express (quick) installation, partition and label disk 3. Select Minimal Installation only 4. Select installation source (CD) 5. Installation is successful up to this point 6. Do post-installation configuration: select extra distribution packages to install at this time (lib32, doc, man, catman) 7. Installation fails at this point when trying to install the extra packages. For each of these, the error message "Write failure on transfer!" is shown. I would appreciate if you can try to reproduce the bug, which I now think belongs to the installer. Does the installer umounts/loses the target disk after the first pass of the installation? -- fernan
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