Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:06:22 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Jose Amengual M" <pepe@rdc.cl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible regression with 200807 amd64 snapshot CD Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0808200806n683c644ch6820d30762531f09@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C42383EC-D90D-4D80-BD23-01EEE04B583F@rdc.cl> References: <7d6fde3d0808172305h219231e2sad939eacb685414e@mail.gmail.com> <48ABC7FD.3050906@freebsd.org> <C42383EC-D90D-4D80-BD23-01EEE04B583F@rdc.cl>
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Jose Amengual M <pepe@rdc.cl> wrote: > 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 Shall I create a PR then? -Garrett
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