misc/129573: FreeBSD-7.1-RC1 fails to install man pages and doc distribution

[Fernan Aguero]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM,  <vwe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Synopsis: FreeBSD-7.1-RC1 fails to install man pages and doc distribution
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: vwe
> State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 14 00:01:26 UTC 2008
> State-Changed-Why:
> Fenan,
> do you mind to show us the error messages you're seeing?
> BTW, with having actually tried the beta ISOs myself (rebuilding
> from source, often) I think your media is broken.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=129573
>

As I said, I have downloaded the images from the FreeBSD FTP
site. The downloaded image MD5 checksum matches the one in
the FTP site. And, the MD5 checksum of the contents of the
burned CD also matches this checksum. So, if the media is
broken, then it should be broken for anyone who got the
image from FreeBSD.

Checksum as in the FTP site:
grep disc1 CHECKSUM.MD5
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6

Check of ISO image:
md5sum 7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso
116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6  7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso

Check of burned CD:
echo $(( $(ls -l 7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso | awk '{ print $5 }') / 2048 ))
280688
dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=280688 | md5sum
116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6  -

I have not tried to build the release CDs from source,
though.

Regarding the error messages, these were always
"Write failure on transfer! wrote -1 bytes of 1425408"

I have now installed 7.1-RC1 again a few times, changing
the order of the steps, and the error happens only when I
try to install extra distribution packages in the
post-installation phase.

E.g.:

1. Boot installer
2. Select Express (quick) installation, partition and label disk
3. Select Minimal Installation AND select custom
distribution packages at this time (lib32, doc, man, catman)
4. Select installation source (CD)
5. Installation is successful (including extra distrib pkgs)
6. Do post-installation configuration (root passwd, add
user, configure and bring up network interface, set box as
NFS client/SSH server)
7. Reboot
8. Everything is OK

However, the following leads to the error:
1. Boot installer
2. Select Express (quick) installation, partition and label
disk
3. Select Minimal Installation only
4. Select installation source (CD)
5. Installation is successful up to this point
6. Do post-installation configuration: select extra distribution
packages to install at this time (lib32, doc, man, catman)
7. Installation fails at this point when trying to install
the extra packages. For each of these, the error message
"Write failure on transfer!" is shown.

I would appreciate if you can try to reproduce the bug,
which I now think belongs to the installer.

Does the installer umounts/loses the target disk after the
first pass of the installation?

-- 
fernan