Re: Possible regression with 200807 amd64 snapshot CD

Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>When trying to install 7.0-RELEASE on amd64 with the snapshot CD for
>>8.0-CURRENT, I'm running into issues where I can't seem to install
>>because the installer gets to a point where it just quits with a -1
>>exit code.
>>
>>Looking at the console I see a load of "cpio: malformed number"
>>messages scroll by the screen, which makes me think that the issue
>>lays with either the integrity of the archives received, or there's a
>>bug with cpio that's included in the snapshot CD.

Dimitry Andric followed up with:
> It's the same with 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-disc1.iso.  Even GNU cpio
> doesn't eat the files (for example base.??):
> 
> cpio: Malformed number 000755 
> cpio: Malformed number 000000 
> [...]
> 
> file(1) says the uncompressed data looks like a POSIX tar archive, and
> GNU tar can uncompress it alright:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2008-07-16 00:08 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2008-07-16 00:07 ./bin/
> [...]

What version?  What does "tar --version" show?

> While GNU cpio shows something completely different:
> 
> dr-sr-s--T   1 0        root            0 Feb  7  2006 ./
> dr-sr-s--T   1 0        root            0 Feb  7  2006 ./bin/
> dr-sr-s--T   1 0        root            0 Feb  7  2006 ./boot/
> [...]

What version?  What does "cpio --version" show?

I haven't tried to reproduce Garrett's problem yet, but
I did just download the 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-disc1.iso
file that Dimitry reported problems with and extracted
the base.?? files from it.

I get the right output with any of the following:
   * bsdcpio 1.0
   * bsdtar 2.5.5
   * GNU tar 1.19
   * GNU cpio 2.6
   * FreeBSD pax

So far, I've only managed to reproduce the screwed-up output
with GNU cpio 2.9.  I'm going to dig a little deeper to see
if this is really a bug in GNU cpio 2.9 or if there's some error
in the data that all those other programs are overlooking.

Tim