CentOS - Jul 2014 - Info to upstream centos mirror: file centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/LiveOS/squashfs.img IS CORRUPT !

Hello,

i've been struggling hard to setup our automated PXE/kickstart system
using various local mirrors
but it alway hung after partitioning with no further exception. When I
encountered squshfs errors
on the Console (text based / kickstart installation) I re-synced (rsync)
with CERN mirror afterwards with
switch.ch mirror and fh-esslingen - But the squashfs image remained corrupt.

To prove my suspicion i've finally copied the file from Netboot.iso into
our local mirror and voil? -
finally the installation works as expected.

Just wanted to let you know - it might save man people from many hours
of trouble ...

Please check - and keep up the great work  :-)

Cheers
Andreas

On 23/07/14 22:21, Andreas Balg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i've been struggling hard to setup our automated PXE/kickstart system
> using various local mirrors
> but it alway hung after partitioning with no further exception. When I
> encountered squshfs errors
> on the Console (text based / kickstart installation) I re-synced (rsync)
> with CERN mirror afterwards with
> switch.ch mirror and fh-esslingen - But the squashfs image remained
corrupt.
> 
> To prove my suspicion i've finally copied the file from Netboot.iso
into
> our local mirror and voil? -
> finally the installation works as expected.
> 
> Just wanted to let you know - it might save man people from many hours
> of trouble ...
> 
> Please check - and keep up the great work  :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas
Well, what would be good is to give the checksum of your local file
before claiming it's corrupt everywhere :-)
The sha1sum from that squashfs image on the master mirror and on the DVD
iso is the same :
693a52b00ac5a6d2e6e2a645352a3c2649578c5f  squashfs.img

So probably you got it corrupted during you transfer.
I guess also that you have not it anymore, but this hasn't changed on
the centos controlled mirrors.

Cheers,

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
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