[Yast-users] problem installing yast on new oel4-U5 system

[Phillip Brown]

Hi

This morning I (again) downloaded the file from
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/yast/dist/files/el4/20070117/yast_el4_x86_32.tar

scp'ed it across to the problem server, untarred, which it did with no
complaint, then ran uninstall - no problem, and install, which ended up
with the same problem

pbrown at arisia:~/temp/yast_el4_x86_32> md5sum yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
29fe8bf9389b99ab3ad2db2f069ab245  yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
....
[root at appserver05 ~]# cd yast_el4_x86_32
[root at appserver05 yast_el4_x86_32]# md5sum yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
29fe8bf9389b99ab3ad2db2f069ab245  yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
[root at appserver05 yast_el4_x86_32]# rpm -Uvh yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:yast-EM                ###########################################
[100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic

Also, this is happening on more than one server (both servers have same
update level)

FWIW, I have just worked out a work-around

pbrown at arisia:~/temp/yast_el4_x86_32> rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm |
cpio -icvd
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-dns.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-host.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-network-devices.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-nfs-client.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-routing.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-services.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-test.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/GPL
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/LICENSE
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/RunYast.sh
173 blocks
.....
[root at appserver05 yast_el4_x86_32]# rpm -Uvh yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm --justdb
Preparing...        ########################################### [100%]
....
pbrown at arisia:~/temp/yast_el4_x86_32> cd usr
pbrown at arisia:~/temp/yast_el4_x86_32/usr> scp -r * root at appserver05:/usr
root at appserver05's password:
EM-network-devices.ycp                    100%   13KB  12.6KB/s   00:00
EM-services.ycp                           100% 7611     7.4KB/s   00:00
EM-host.ycp                               100% 4852     4.7KB/s   00:00
GPL                                       100%   18KB  17.6KB/s   00:00
EM-nfs-client.ycp                         100%   12KB  11.7KB/s   00:00
LICENSE                                   100%   18KB  17.6KB/s   00:00
RunYast.sh                                100% 1339     1.3KB/s   00:00
EM-dns.ycp                                100% 3132     3.1KB/s   00:00
EM-routing.ycp                            100% 7528     7.4KB/s   00:00
EM-test.ycp                               100% 1370     1.3KB/s   00:00



regards

Phillip

Zhao Shujing wrote:
> Hi, Phillip
> I think perhaps on the first machine the rpm might be corrupted. I'd
> suggest to verify with md5sum if its the same as on the box where it
> works.
> 
> Thanks
> Pearly Zhao
> 
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:06 +1100, Phillip Brown wrote:
>> I have been trying to install yast2 on a new oel4-u5, with latest (as of
>> today) updates.
>>
>> It all goes fine until it gets to installing yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
>> (which is the current one available from oss.oracle.com).
>>
>> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -Uvh yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
>> Preparing...                ###########################################
>> [100%]
>>    1:yast-EM                ###########################################
>> [100%]
>> error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic
>> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q cpio
>> cpio-2.5-13.RHEL4
>> [root at appserver05 ~]# cpio --version
>> GNU cpio version 2.5
>> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q rpm
>> rpm-4.3.3-23_nonptl.0.1
>> [root at appserver05 ~]# rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
>> cpio: premature end of archive
>>
>> rpm -q on the file works, but not actually installing
>>
>>
>> on my opensuse 10.3 laptop, I can do
>>
>> pbrown at arisia:~/temp> rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-dns.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-host.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-network-devices.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-nfs-client.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-routing.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-services.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-test.ycp
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/GPL
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/LICENSE
>> ./usr/share/YaST2/clients/RunYast.sh
>> 173 blocks
>> pbrown at arisia:~/temp> cpio --version
>> cpio (GNU cpio) 2.9
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> p.s. I would have logged a bugzilla, but yast2 does not appear as a
>> choice for logging a bug.
>>
> 

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