FS#11083 - Ftp fails in interpreting the list of base packages

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Adam Vogt (vogt) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 05:37 GMT
Last edited by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 19:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To Simo Leone (neotuli)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version 2009.02
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description: The ftp install does not end up getting
the list of base packages successfully, while it did
succeed at syncing the databases.

Additional info:
* package version(s) archlinux-2008.06-ftp.img
* config and/or log files etc.

Steps to reproduce:
use the menu-based installer, ftp source
bring up network
mount filesystems
try to select packages, but the list is populated by some errors,
not categories
This task depends upon

Closed by  Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Monday, 26 January 2009, 19:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in 2009.01
Comment by Adam Vogt (vogt) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 05:48 GMT
I tried again, and now it works fine, with the same image, same drive.

It must have been a result of me having failed at using a local cache (via sshfs) mounted to /src/..., which is odd, since the errors persisted after I removed that directory.

Either that or the install fails when the target is slightly unclean (some /mnt/var/lib/pacman/*)

In any case, this bug is invalid.
Comment by Michal Bozon (mykhal) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 20:15 GMT
I'm not sure it's not a bug. I have the same error now, in 4 of 5 tries. With different repos selected. Both on archlinux-2008.06-ftp.img and archlinux-2008.06-core.img

I got following packages categories: "Error", "Expected", "at", "least", "7", "tokens" and "for" :) . In the next try, if it's bug again, the choices are only: "Error:" and "Expected".
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 20:16 GMT
Not really sure how related that comment is. Simo?
Comment by Michal Bozon (mykhal) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 20:19 GMT
(.. now it offers me only "base-devel" category, not sure if it's ok, but installation continues ok)
Comment by Michal Bozon (mykhal) - Friday, 01 August 2008, 20:22 GMT
phrakture: this probably is related error, see "but the list is populated by some errors" in original report
Comment by Adam Vogt (vogt) - Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 20:02 GMT
mykhal's two errors look familiar, but I forgot to write mine down, so they could be different.
Comment by David (Entvex) - Thursday, 21 August 2008, 16:42 GMT
I have seen Both the "Error", "Expected".
And the "base-devel" category
Comment by Scott H (stonecrest) - Friday, 29 August 2008, 02:08 GMT
I get this problem everytime, no matter what mirror I try. 15+ times straight, I can't seem to get around it :( It's just as mykhal describes: starts with the longer error ("Error", "expected", "at", "least", etc etc) and then every subsequent time is just "Error" and "expected".
Comment by Scott H (stonecrest) - Friday, 29 August 2008, 02:31 GMT
Okay, with codemac pointing me in the right direction, I was able to get past this error. I apparently had an empty /tmp/.pkgcategory file (see http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob;f=setup;h=7b3d80342ac31a775078ea3162737fcd082bd075;hb=HEAD#l772). After deleting this file, I correctly saw base-devel as a category and the install is proceeding smoothly now.
Comment by changaco (changaco) - Saturday, 30 August 2008, 08:07 GMT
I have this bug too. I looked for a /tmp/.pkgcategory file but I don't have one.
I'll download the core ISO but it's quite annoying ...
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 21:17 GMT
What's the status of this issue?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 21:21 GMT
Dan, any insight? This should be fixed in the newest installer, right?
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Friday, 05 December 2008, 23:51 GMT
I am not sure- I don't think Simo or I have encountered this in the new installer and we refactored a lot of how it works in this arena.
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 19:25 GMT
I've done today and yesterday two ftp installations (i686) and see no problems.
I close this now.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 19:25 GMT
Some commits around this have happened. http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=log
Let's see if the issue pops up again. If so, I'll have a look at it

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