Description of problem: Original bug 1302072. When our customers kickstarting RHEL 5 via Satellite Proxy 5, a kickstarted system doesn't boot. The problem is Proxy returns only part of rpm-packages and Anaconda tries to install this package. After installation finished, I can see an error in install.log: Installing kernel-2.6.18-398.el5.x86_64 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-398.el5;56495c6d: cpio: read the same maybe for different packages. if I download package with curl I can see an error: curl: (18) transfer closed with 20755079 bytes remaining to read Actually the same error for Anaconda on RHEL 6, but in case of RHEL 6 it tries to download a package again. in anaconda.log I can see: 15:28:04,440 WARNING : Try 1/10 for http://dhcp131-19.brq.redhat.com/ty/6BGjRC8Z/Packages/man-pages-3.22-20.el6.noarch.rpm failed: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 18 - "transfer closed with 3023108 bytes remaining to read" 15:28:04,695 WARNING : Failed to get http://dhcp131-19.brq.redhat.com/ty/6BGjRC8Z/Packages/man-pages-3.22-20.el6.noarch.rpm from mirror 1/1, or downloaded file is corrupt 15:28:04,697 WARNING : package download failure, retrying automatically Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 11.1.2.263 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: I reproduce this bug the way described in bug 1302072. The squid version of 3.1.23-9.el6 on RHEL 6 does not let us download package completely if we made Range request for the same package before. (In case of Anaconda, it downloads rpm header first with Range request). Actual results: Installed system doesn't boot Expected results: Anaconda checks package and tries to download it again.
Sure sounds like a squid problem and not something that Anaconda can fix.
(In reply to Brian Lane from comment #1) > Sure sounds like a squid problem and not something that Anaconda can fix. Hello, Brian. Anaconda tries to install cut package. There is a problem. I believe Anaconda version of 11.1.2.263 should do verification of a package the same way as Anaconda version of 13.21.239 does. There is no difference who cut a package proxy/web-server/or-something-else.
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