Bug 21052

Summary: Installation Mageia 6 RC failed with 'unpack' errors
Product: Mageia Reporter: Gerald <g.sprik>
Component: InstallerAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: yvesbrungard
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: report.bug

Description Gerald 2017-06-09 14:12:54 CEST
I tried to install Mageia-6-rc-x86_64-DVD.iso. 
After a while the installation halts.

ERROR: 'unpack' failed for qtimageformats5-5.6.2-1.mga6.x86_64
ERROR: 'unpack' failed for x11-font-misc-misc-1.1.2-6.mga6.noach
Unable to install package /tmp/image/media/core/usb_modeswitch-data-20160803-1.mga6.noach.rpm
Comment 1 Gerald 2017-06-09 15:00:36 CEST
Created attachment 9396 [details]
report.bug

A second installation attempt failed too, again an 'unpack' error, but now on another package.
Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2017-06-09 15:49:11 CEST
Do you have enough available disk space on the partition you chose for / ?
Rémi Verschelde 2017-06-09 15:49:22 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 3 Gerald 2017-06-09 17:28:49 CEST
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #2)

> Do you have enough available disk space on the partition you chose for / ?

The partition is 19 GB 
(I chose for Plasma as DE).

In earlier releases of Mageia this was more than enough disk space for /.
Comment 4 Bit Twister 2017-06-09 20:30:53 CEST
(In reply to Gerald from comment #3)
> (In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #2)
> 
> > Do you have enough available disk space on the partition you chose for / ?
> 
> The partition is 19 GB 
> (I chose for Plasma as DE).
> 
> In earlier releases of Mageia this was more than enough disk space for /.

That still does not answer the question. How about providing the output from
 df -h /
Comment 5 Gerald 2017-06-10 06:58:16 CEST
(In reply to Bit Twister from comment #4)

The output from df -h / (when I see the 'unpack' ERROR messages) is:

Filesystem          Size      Used    Avail     Use  Mounted on
/dev/loop0              66       66        0    100% /usr
/dev/sda1            39999       65    39934      0% /mnt/media/windows
/dev/sdb11           19923     1143    18779      5% /mnt
/dev/sdb8           495376   376608   118768     76% /mnt/mnt/data1
/dev/sdc              3908     3908        0    100% /tmp/media
devtmpfs              3953        0     3953      0% /mnt/dev
none                  3967        0     3967      0% /mnt/tmp/.X11-unix
rootfs                3953      111     3841      2% /
tmpfs                 3967        1     3966      0% /mnt/run

I use partition sdb11 to install Mageia 6.
Comment 6 David Walser 2017-06-11 17:44:43 CEST
This is rather suspicious, as these days RPM usually catches the kind of things that cause unpack errors before they happen.  Did you verify the checksum of your ISO?
Comment 7 Gerald 2017-06-11 19:09:01 CEST
(In reply to David Walser from comment #6)

> This is rather suspicious, as these days RPM usually catches the kind of
> things that cause unpack errors before they happen.  Did you verify the
> checksum of your ISO?

Yes, i verified. All checksums matched (md5sum, sha1sum and sha512sum).
Comment 8 Gerald 2017-06-11 20:27:24 CEST
I use IsoDumper in Mageia 5 to write the ISO image on an USB stick.

The IsoDumper log shows that it has been done successfully, but the SHA1-sum and MD5-sum in the log are different from the md5sum and sha1sum of the ISO itself.
Should they match?
Comment 9 papoteur 2017-06-11 21:38:23 CEST
Yes, 
Isodumper reports that it encounters no error, but it doesn't check the sums against source sums.

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia

Comment 10 Gerald 2017-07-06 09:14:15 CEST
The conclusion is that these unpack errors were caused by an incorrect 'isodump'. It's not an installer issue.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID