Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56434
Anaconda: "install exited abnormally"; rpm: "unpacking of archive failed ... cpio: MD5 sum mismatch"
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-6 i686) Description of problem: 7.2 installation ALWAYS fails on a PC where 7.1 has no problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I'm trying to install all packages. I tried GUI mode, text mode, expert mode. Actual Results: rpm fails for several packages until Anaconda exits abnormally. Some examples: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/unicode/Names.txt;3bf59301: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/termcap;3bf59301: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/socketmodule.so;3bf59301: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch etc. Additional info: PC "A" has a running 7.2 system. PC "B" has a running 7.1 system on /dev/hdd. This is the PC where I'm having troubles with installing 7.2. Are CDs the problem? -------------------- - The installation of 7.2 works fine on PC "A". - Checking the CDs checksums on PC "A" (RH7.2) and on PC "B" (RH7.1) displays the same checksums. - Checking the packages' checksums on PC "A" (RH7.2) and on PC "B" (RH7.1) displays the same checksums. => So the CDs seem to be ok. Is there a memory problem on PC "B"? ------------------------------------ - RH 7.1 runs on this PC on /dev/hdd all the time without any problems. That's where I'm writing this summary. This PC is usually up and running for many days. => So memory seems to be ok. Is there a harddisk problem on PC "B"? --------------------------------------- - Trying to install 7.2 in GUI mode and in text mode 6 times on /dev/hda AND on /dev/hdb gives me always several RPM checksum error messages for different packages. - I checked both harddisks for bad blocks - no bad blocks have been found. - Installing RH 7.1 on these harddisks works fine (I tried it 2 times today). => So the harddisks seem to be ok. Is there a problem with the DVD ROM drive on PC "B"? ---------------------------------------------------- - When I checked the checksums of the CDs several times with this ROM drive, it displayed the same checksums as on PC "A". - When I checked the packages' checksums several with this drive, it displayed the same checksums as on PC "A". - Installing RH 7.1 with this ROM drive works fine. => So the DVD ROM drive seems to be ok. Workaround ---------- I copied the 7.2 images via the DVD ROM drive to /dev/hda on PC "B". Then I installed 7.2 on /dev/hdb by using the ISO images on /dev/hda. Now the 7.2 installation succeeded. This shows again that the harddisks, the memory, and the DVD ROM drive are ok. My conclusion: -------------- The boot kernel for the 7.2 installation seems to be broken. It looks like this kernel has problems with the "HITACHI GD-2000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM" drive. I never had any problems when I installed 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 7.0 on this PC with this DVD ROM drive. And today I installed 7.1 2 times on this PC without getting any rpm errors. Thanks Werner
I have seen a large number of bug reports that appear to be bad cdroms, but one thing that many of these reports have in common is that they were done on dvd drives. So, I think your assessment is correct...there appears to be some problem with some dvd drives. Our beta testers didn't see this problem in the betas, and we can't reproduce it internally, so it's hard to pin down. Arjan, is does the kernel treat dvd drives differently than cdrom? Also, has that code changed from 7.1 to 7.2?
wp, can you try booting the installer with 'linux ide=nodma' and see if that helps at all? Also, it would be useful if you have a traceback message that you could attach.
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