error untaring stage file but md5sum correct - what next1?

bigV

I am still having a problem with the stageX d/l.
I have downloaded stage1 today along with the md5sum for this file. The md5sum is correct but when I do a tar -xvjpf stage1*.bz2 I get the following error...

tar: archive contains obselescent base-64 errors
./etc/hosts
tar: skipping to next header

bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have been corrupted etc etc

You can use bzip2recover to attempt to recover the data

tar: child returned status 2
tar: error exit delayed from previous errors

I am at at total loss as to what may be causing this

any ideas??!!

Thanks

Andy :?:

lx · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 3:51 pm Post subject:

I just downloaded http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2 and it's md5sum, md5sum -c *.md5sum gives ok, unpacking it succeeds without problems, so I think the problem ain't in the image, md5sum s*.bz2 gives:

Gav · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 65 Location: Surrey, UK

I had some issues when installing from stage2/3 tarballs downloaded from mirrors. I found the MD5's were not correct and got errors un-tarring them (not surprising!). Perhaps a tarball from another site would work?

bigV · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 5:05 pm Post subject: thanks for replying

I downloaded from a mirror site - the md5sum was correct!!
I saved to /mnt/gentoo

untaring with tar -xvjpf nearly completed but failed near the end!!

Maybe I'll follow your advice Gav and d/l the stage1 from a different site

Thanks

Andy

bigV · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 5:11 pm Post subject:

I have just checked the d/l site I used.

It was a German site for the livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso but I downloaded the stage 1 tarball from ..

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc1/x86/

I am completely lost!!

A.

SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

bigV · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:36 pm Post subject:

5GB for /mnt/gentoo
100 MB for boot
650 MB for swap

A.

bigV · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 6:46 pm Post subject:

When I use bzip2recover on the stage1 file, block 12 comes out with errors!!

I have also tried the stage1 file from the cd, mounted in /cdroot/nocompress after the initial boot (same issue)

A

SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

Perhaps a memory problem ?
-> Try memtest86

Do you have another OS installed on the same hardware ? Works well ?

lx · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject:

I suppose using the test option t instead of x gives the same error (this rules out errors where space is concerned c.q. wrongly mounted partition), As mentioned before I've downloaded the latest image from (ibiblio) and checked the md5sum and it extracted & tested correctly. So it can't be the image, and if you've done md5sum -c *.md5sum and it testes oke, then it can't be a problem with your filesystem c.q. harddrive. So it's either software related (iso.image, could very well be) but there should be more complaints then, or it's hardware related, well very strange, we've got to eliminated all possibilities, maybe you could post some details about your system, well at least cpu type.

Cya lX.
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bigV · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help guys - i have cracked it.

The partitions were set up incorrectly - logical instead of primary - doh!!

:oops:

still - one to remember for the future!!

Thanks again

A.

lx · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 9:05 pm Post subject:

I should come over and kick your bottom,........... just kidding, besides it are the most annoying errors, cause you can't blaim somebody else,

Glad you fixed it,

Cya lX.
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zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

IS memtest86 a kernel or something to be loaded by chain loader?
The ebuild suggests that it is a kernel.

lx · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 3:36 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 9:32 pm Post subject:

In benchmarking, they call "kernel" a small program that exercises some aspect of the system (in this case, memory). But memtest86 is not an OS kernel at all. Just an application to test your memory, as lx stated.