Re: 6.0_BETA upgrade fails on Indy / Challenge S

On 21.03.2012 00:42, George Harvey wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:08:00 +0000 (UTC)
> John Klos<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>>> Next step was to reboot into the install kernel again and try adding
>>> the extra sets. This time comp was extracted without error but the next
>>> set, man, threw 'invalid header', data stream error', 'unexpected EOF
>>> and failed. This suggests that sysinst is running out of some resource,
>>> possibly RAM, when asked to extract multiple sets.
>>
>> If the system were running out of some resource, it would fail to launch
>> new processes or kill off running processes - it wouldn't randomly fail.
>>
>> There's a possibility that there's something wrong with the install
>> kernel. If you install and boot into a really basic install, then
>> untargzip additional sets, does that work?
>
> No, I get similar errors to those I saw with sysinst. I booted the
> GENERIC kernel from local disk and tried installing the remaining
> sets from local disk. The first few unpacked OK but xcomp failed with
> unexpected EOF. Checking the md5 sums, it seems that xcomp was the
> right length but wrong md5. I re-copied it using FTP and this time the
> md5 sum was OK. However, when I tried again to unpack it I got weird
> errors like 'cannot set file uid/gid of ()'. So it's looking more like
> a kernel bug and not a problem with sysinst.

I guess i got the same "unexpected EOF"-Errors on my O2. I installed the
packages via ftp/http and tests.tar.gz failed repeatable. ( even after
choosing a different way to get package ftp/http )