Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:52:40PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>
>$ jigdo-file mt -fi adduser_3.59_all.deb -j grr.jigdo -t grr.template 
>adduser_3.59_all.deb
>Match of `adduser_3.59_all.deb' at offset 0   
>Finished - image size is 93882 bytes.
>$ jigdo-file ls -t grr.template
>need-file  093882 K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA kRjI35yjRzk
>image-info 93882  K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA 1024
>$ jigdo-file ls -t grr.template --hex
>need-file  093882 2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 
>9118c8df9ca34739
>image-info 93882  2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 1024
>
>This means that the Rsync64Sum expected by jigdo-file is kRjI35yjRzk, or 
>9118c8df9ca34739 in hexadecimal. For the algorithm, this means that 
>lo=0xdfc81891, hi=0x3947a39c.
>
>The JTE-generated .template contains something else:
>
>$ jigdo-file ls -t sarge-i386-1.template|grep 52803584
>need-file   5280358493882 K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA gIOeQJMjgK4
>$ jigdo-file ls -t sarge-i386-1.template --hex|grep 52803584
>need-file   5280358493882 2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 
>80839e40932380ae
>
>So for JTE, lo=0x409e8380 and hi=0xae802393 - the bytes are not just
>reordered like I initially suspected, but completely different. %-| Having
>stared at JTE's implementation of the algorithm as well as jigdo-file's (in
>src/rsyncsum.cc:73), I cannot figure out any differences. Grr, I'll have a
>closer look tomorrow - unless Steve beats me in finding the bug. ;-)

I can't promise anything at the moment; I'm stuck away from home with
a family emergency right now. I tested this, so I'm surprised it
doesn't work... :-(

I'll see if I can take a look.

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Re: Latest Sarge dvd jigdos - NFA needed

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Parker
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:31, Robert Parker wrote:
> I just downloaded the latest jigdos and templates from:
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386/
>
> Not only do I get 100% (or nearly so) rejection due to errors from my loop
> mounted iso's from last week, I get the same error rate from my local
> mirror and also when I access:
>
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/dvd/i386/Debian/
>
> Hardly conducive to keeping the load off the servers!
>
> What gives.
>
> Bob

Sorry, just got Richards post on this list.
No action needed.

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Latest Sarge dvd jigdos

2004-10-02 Thread Robert Parker
I just downloaded the latest jigdos and templates from:

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386/

Not only do I get 100% (or nearly so) rejection due to errors from my loop 
mounted iso's from last week, I get the same error rate from my local mirror 
and also when I access:

http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/dvd/i386/Debian/

Hardly conducive to keeping the load off the servers!

What gives.

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Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Atterer
OK, I know now what causes the problem. I haven't found the error in JTE 
(or jigdo-file?) yet.

Downloaders, as a short-term workaround add "--no-check-files" to jigdoOpts 
in your ~/.jigdo-lite.

As of version 1.12, JTE not only outputs md5sums for each file, but also an
"Rsync64Sum" for the first 1k of each file. I asked Steve to implement this
- in the future, it'll allow the jigdo GUI to abort downloads early if the
checksum of the first 1k doesn't match during the download.

JTE 1.11 outputs a zero "blockLen" field to the .template, which switches
off comparison of Rsync64Sums by "jigdo-file make-image" (used by
jigdo-lite).

JTE 1.12 sets "blockLen" to 1024, but outputs a wrong Rsync64Sum. With our 
example file, adduser_3.59_all.deb:

$ jigdo-file mt -fi adduser_3.59_all.deb -j grr.jigdo -t grr.template 
adduser_3.59_all.deb
Match of `adduser_3.59_all.deb' at offset 0   
Finished - image size is 93882 bytes.
$ jigdo-file ls -t grr.template
need-file  093882 K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA kRjI35yjRzk
image-info 93882  K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA 1024
$ jigdo-file ls -t grr.template --hex
need-file  093882 2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 9118c8df9ca34739
image-info 93882  2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 1024

This means that the Rsync64Sum expected by jigdo-file is kRjI35yjRzk, or 
9118c8df9ca34739 in hexadecimal. For the algorithm, this means that 
lo=0xdfc81891, hi=0x3947a39c.

The JTE-generated .template contains something else:

$ jigdo-file ls -t sarge-i386-1.template|grep 52803584
need-file   5280358493882 K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA gIOeQJMjgK4
$ jigdo-file ls -t sarge-i386-1.template --hex|grep 52803584
need-file   5280358493882 2b7230646509945eeaeac0afeedf0f7c 80839e40932380ae

So for JTE, lo=0x409e8380 and hi=0xae802393 - the bytes are not just
reordered like I initially suspected, but completely different. %-| Having
stared at JTE's implementation of the algorithm as well as jigdo-file's (in
src/rsyncsum.cc:73), I cannot figure out any differences. Grr, I'll have a
closer look tomorrow - unless Steve beats me in finding the bug. ;-)

Cheers,

  Richard

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Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Achim Löbbert
( Sorry for sending this again but the first was only a follow-up post
  through a news2mail gateway to [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:12:14PM +0200, Achim Löbbert wrote:
> > using yesterday's official sarge templates I am getting tons of errors
> > once jigdo-lite starts to write the DVD iso image:
> [...]
> > Merging parts from `file:' URIs, if any...
> > Found 6720 of the 6720 files required by the template
> > Error: 
> > `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb' does 
> > not match checksu
m in template data
> > Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.27_i386.deb' 
> > does not match checksum in
template data
>
> As you say later, this error only happens if a file's md5sum changes
> between the initial scan and copying the matching file to the image. :-|

This time I let it run until it wrote 100% of the image. Then it
started to download files in some random, at least non-alphabetic
order. After the first 10 files there is this message:

  FINISHED --16:15:24--
  Downloaded: 4,462,916 bytes in 10 files
  Found 10 of the 5042 files required by the template

which indicates to me that it wants to download 5042 of the 6720 files
required by the template. Of course I stopped it again.

> Apart from undetected read errors on your HD (unlikely...), another

I compared the files downloaded to a tmp directory with the ones of my
mirror and found them to be identical:

$ cd 
./sarge-i386-1.iso.tmpdir/gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/dvd/i386/Debian/pool/main
$ find -type f
./g/gxine/gxine_0.3.3-3_i386.deb
./g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb
./j/joystick/joystick_20010903-2_i386.deb
./l/lg-issue50/lg-issue50_2-1_all.deb
./s/sc/sc_7.16-2_i386.deb
./libc/libcaca/libcaca-dev_0.9-4_i386.deb
./libh/libhtml-tree-perl/libhtml-tree-perl_3.18-1_all.deb
./libp/libproplist/libproplist0_0.10.1-8_i386.deb
./libt/libtool/libtool-doc_1.5.6-2_all.deb
$ cmp  g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb 
\
  /pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb

> reason for this might be a corrupted cache file.

I first tried with a two week old jigdo-file-cache.db in the same
directory. Next time I deleted it prior to running jigdo-lite, both
with the same result.

> You can check whether this is the case by trying
>
>   jigdo-file --cache=path/to/cache.db md5sum 
> /pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3
.59_all.deb
>
> once with and once without the --cache switch.

$ jigdo-file --cache=jigdo-file-cache.db md5sum 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_
3.59_all.deb
K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA  
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
$ jigdo-file md5sum 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA  
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb

Both checksums look the same.

> This problem with the cache will also appear if something changed the
> content of files in your mirror without also changing the mtime of the
> file. Examples include incorrect mirroring (rsync problems?) or storing the
> mirror on a FAT32 filesystem and enabling its broken CRLF<->LF conversion.

The mirror is on a ReiserFS on kernel 2.6.8.1, kept up-to-date by a
modified debmirror. Purging is done by own script with 90 days
latency. The mirror logs show no problems.

> > Files in the local mirror [file:/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/] are
> > unlikely to have changed between the scan and writing the image. Two
> > weeks ago jigdo-lite version 0.7.1-4 did not produce such errors.
>
> And the version that exhibits the problem is also 0.7.1-4?

Yes, I use that version since July 6th.

Achim



Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Markus Hirschmann
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Hi Achim
Achim Löbbert wrote:
| using yesterday's official sarge templates I am getting tons of errors
| once jigdo-lite starts to write the DVD iso image:
Same Problem here.
I think there's a problem in the jidgo-templates, last weeks templates
worked perfectly.
Greetings
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Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies

2004-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 274511 debian-installer
severity 274511 wishlist
thanks

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:25:38PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Package: cdrom, d-i
> Severity: important
> 
> [ not sure which package to file it against; reassign as appropriate if
> needed ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when you install sarge (or use the rescue system) you get devfs.

This *so* won't be fixed for sarge. :-) It's quite deeply embedded in
the d-i code. For etch, we'll probably move to something else, but now
is not the time.

> However, Linux newbies or people switching from other distributions not
> using devfs (and not knowing that something like this exists or how it
> works - devfs is deprecated after all) are going to be seriously
> confused

By and large, they shouldn't have to care. The installed system doesn't
use devfs, and new users won't have to poke around in the installer
environment too much.

> The resulting system installed by d-i doesn't so what is the reason
> you use devfs/the desired effect?

We don't have room for static device nodes, and no alternatives were
available at the time when that part of d-i was originally written.
devfsd wouldn't fit in a number of the images, and would probably only
cause unnecessary confusion.

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Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Achim Löbbert
Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:12:14PM +0200, Achim Löbbert wrote:
> > using yesterday's official sarge templates I am getting tons of errors
> > once jigdo-lite starts to write the DVD iso image:
> [...]
> > Merging parts from `file:' URIs, if any...
> > Found 6720 of the 6720 files required by the template
> > Error: 
> > `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb' does 
> > not match checksum in template data
> > Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.27_i386.deb' 
> > does not match checksum in template data
> 
> As you say later, this error only happens if a file's md5sum changes
> between the initial scan and copying the matching file to the image. :-|

This time I let it run until it wrote 100% of the image. Then it
started to download files in some random, at least non-alphabetic
order. After the first 10 files there is this message:

  FINISHED --16:15:24--
  Downloaded: 4,462,916 bytes in 10 files
  Found 10 of the 5042 files required by the template

which indicates to me that it wants to download 5042 of the 6720 files
required by the template. Of course I stopped it again.

> Apart from undetected read errors on your HD (unlikely...), another 

I compared the files downloaded to a tmp directory with the ones of my
mirror and found them to be identical:

$ cd 
./sarge-i386-1.iso.tmpdir/gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/dvd/i386/Debian/pool/main
$ find -type f
./g/gxine/gxine_0.3.3-3_i386.deb
./g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb
./j/joystick/joystick_20010903-2_i386.deb
./l/lg-issue50/lg-issue50_2-1_all.deb
./s/sc/sc_7.16-2_i386.deb
./libc/libcaca/libcaca-dev_0.9-4_i386.deb
./libh/libhtml-tree-perl/libhtml-tree-perl_3.18-1_all.deb
./libp/libproplist/libproplist0_0.10.1-8_i386.deb
./libt/libtool/libtool-doc_1.5.6-2_all.deb
$ cmp  g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb 
\
  /pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnutls11/gnutls-bin_1.0.16-7_i386.deb

> reason for this might be a corrupted cache file.

I first tried with a two week old jigdo-file-cache.db in the same
directory. Next time I deleted it prior to running jigdo-lite, both
with the same result.

> You can check whether this is the case by trying
> 
>   jigdo-file --cache=path/to/cache.db md5sum 
> /pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
> 
> once with and once without the --cache switch.

$ jigdo-file --cache=jigdo-file-cache.db md5sum 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA  
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
$ jigdo-file md5sum 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb
K3IwZGUJlF7q6sCv7t8PfA  
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb

Both checksums look the same.

> This problem with the cache will also appear if something changed the
> content of files in your mirror without also changing the mtime of the
> file. Examples include incorrect mirroring (rsync problems?) or storing the
> mirror on a FAT32 filesystem and enabling its broken CRLF<->LF conversion.

The mirror is on a ReiserFS on kernel 2.6.8.1, kept up-to-date by a
modified debmirror. Purging is done by own script with 90 days
latency. The mirror logs show no problems.

> > Files in the local mirror [file:/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/] are
> > unlikely to have changed between the scan and writing the image. Two
> > weeks ago jigdo-lite version 0.7.1-4 did not produce such errors.
> 
> And the version that exhibits the problem is also 0.7.1-4?

Yes, I use that version since July 6th.

Achim


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Processed: Re: Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies

2004-10-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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> reassign 274511 debian-installer
Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies
Bug reassigned from package `cdrom, debian-installer' to `debian-installer'.

> severity 274511 wishlist
Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies
Severity set to `wishlist'.

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Re: Calculation of cd sizes implemented and tested, should I commit?

2004-10-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Santiago Garcia Mantinan:
> Hi!
> 
> It is two weeks since we started using at gluck the code I made to try to
> estimate the sizes of the cd parts that debian-cd was not controling, it
> seems to be working ok, so I was wondering if I should commit it :-?

Of course !
Please go for it.

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Re: jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Atterer
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:12:14PM +0200, Achim Löbbert wrote:
> using yesterday's official sarge templates I am getting tons of errors
> once jigdo-lite starts to write the DVD iso image:
[...]
> Merging parts from `file:' URIs, if any...
> Found 6720 of the 6720 files required by the template
> Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb' 
> does not match checksum in template data
> Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.27_i386.deb' does 
> not match checksum in template data

As you say later, this error only happens if a file's md5sum changes
between the initial scan and copying the matching file to the image. :-|

Apart from undetected read errors on your HD (unlikely...), another 
reason for this might be a corrupted cache file. You can check whether this 
is the case by trying

  jigdo-file --cache=path/to/cache.db md5sum 
/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb

once with and once without the --cache switch.

This problem with the cache will also appear if something changed the
content of files in your mirror without also changing the mtime of the
file. Examples include incorrect mirroring (rsync problems?) or storing the
mirror on a FAT32 filesystem and enabling its broken CRLF<->LF conversion.

> Files in the local mirror [file:/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/] are
> unlikely to have changed between the scan and writing the image. Two
> weeks ago jigdo-lite version 0.7.1-4 did not produce such errors.

And the version that exhibits the problem is also 0.7.1-4?

Cheers,

  Richard

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jigdo-lite Error: ... does not match checksum in template data

2004-10-02 Thread Achim Löbbert
Hi,

using yesterday's official sarge templates I am getting tons of errors
once jigdo-lite starts to write the DVD iso image:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[/pub/mirrors/cdimage.debian.org/cdimage-testing/dvd/jigdo-area/i386]
> jigdo-lite sarge-i386-1.jigdo
[...]
Further information about `sarge-i386-1.iso':
Generated on Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:33:18 -0600
[...]
Merging parts from `file:' URIs, if any...
Found 6720 of the 6720 files required by the template
Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.59_all.deb' 
does not match checksum in template data
Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.27_i386.deb' does 
not match checksum in template data
Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt-doc_0.5.27_all.deb' 
does not match checksum in template data
Error: `/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_0.5.27_i386.deb' 
does not match checksum in template data
[...]
jigdo-file failed with code 130 - aborting.

Here I stopped it using Control-C without waiting for it to complain
about probably all files and possibly downloading them again.

Files in the local mirror [file:/pub/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian/]
are unlikely to have changed between the scan and writing the image.
Two weeks ago jigdo-lite version 0.7.1-4 did not produce such errors.

Does anyone else have similar problems?

Achim


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Processed: Re: Bug#274511: Acknowledgement (devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies)

2004-10-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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> # oops, d-i isn't the pseudopqackage ;)
> reassign 274511 cdrom, debian-installer
Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies
Warning: Unknown package 'd-i'
Bug reassigned from package `cdrom, d-i' to `cdrom, debian-installer'.

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Bug#274511: devfs on sarge install cd is confusing for newbies

2004-10-02 Thread Rene Engelhard
Package: cdrom, d-i
Severity: important

[ not sure which package to file it against; reassign as appropriate if
needed ]

Hi,

when you install sarge (or use the rescue system) you get devfs.

While it was quite a culture shock for me when I tried this a few months
ago where I first tried install sarge I did manage it with almost no big
problems since I did know the logic a bit and could use bash to look.

However, Linux newbies or people switching from other distributions not
using devfs (and not knowing that something like this exists or how it
works - devfs is deprecated after all) are going to be seriously
confused

They often just know about /dev/hda*, /dev/sda* etc. but not about
/dev/ide/* etc. - especially since things like fdisk talk about /dev/hda
etc. - but there is no symlink from the "normal, known names"
to the devfs ones.

Someone told me that devfsd normally does this? Can it be that it isn't ran?

It either should be run to have those links or d-i shouldn't use devfs
all all. The resulting system installed by d-i doesn't so what is the
reason you use devfs/the desired effect?

Grüße/Regards,

René

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