Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:25:46 -0700 From: Jose Amengual M <pepe@rdc.cl> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible regression with 200807 amd64 snapshot CD Message-ID: <C42383EC-D90D-4D80-BD23-01EEE04B583F@rdc.cl> In-Reply-To: <48ABC7FD.3050906@freebsd.org> References: <7d6fde3d0808172305h219231e2sad939eacb685414e@mail.gmail.com> <48ABC7FD.3050906@freebsd.org>
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I try the same version of 8.0-current in my Parallels, MacBook and a Acer Travelmate and It produce the same error with cpio. Thanks. On 20-Aug-08, at 12:30 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > 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. >> Could someone verify of disprove this issue please? > > Oh. Hmmm.... Looks like peter@ "upgraded" GNU cpio > in -CURRENT from 2.6 to 2.8 on July 10. Skimming the source, > I see the same broken tar header parsing that I found in > GNU cpio 2.9 earlier tonight. > > I'll see if I can get a fix into the GNU cpio code in -CURRENT, > unless someone wants to switch boot_crunch over to use bsdcpio. > > Tim Kientzle > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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