FS#13335 - archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img is empty.

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Jonathan Frazier (wide-eye) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 12:49 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 19 February 2009, 00:48 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To Dusty Phillips (Dusty)
Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Gerhard Brauer (GerBra)
Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.02
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

this image fails to load grub. mounting shows only a lost+found directory, no squashfs images or /boot as found in x86_64.

file as seen in the torrent and via http, md5sums and sha1sums check ok.
md5sum: cff301324ce5785374563e4b8299d811 archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img

mount -o ro,loop,offset=32256 /home/jwf/isoimgs/archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img tmp/
offset is start sector * block size (fdisk -lu output)

same result as a dd to a real device, eject and mount
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 00:48 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 14:28 GMT
Confirmed. I currently test all our USB-Images.

ftp-i686.img broken
core-i686.img OK
core-x86_64.img OK
ftp-x86_64.img OK
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 15:10 GMT
I got that with the RCs. I first had to format the USB stick.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 15:55 GMT
Do the sha1sums match? Is this just a copying problem, or is it a build problem?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 15:55 GMT
Whoops, it says so in the original bug report :S
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 16:40 GMT
Weird... ok I will rebuild
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 16:45 GMT
Okay, how do we proceed now? Exchanging the image is non-trivial, as we would have to exchange the torrent as well, elimiating all current seeds.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 16:52 GMT
Hmmm would it be odd to build a -2 just for this image?
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 17:34 GMT
I would say: build only the corrupted i686-ftp.img. Upload it to our ISO dir (new sha1sums), so that the (stressed!) mirrors can sync the correct file. So users who downloading directly from the mirrors get the working image.

Pierre is later (now+1 hour) willing to have a look what we can do with the current torrent or if we need a complete new torrent (when one file therein has changed...)

Multi-torrent file:
We have complains in german forum from users about the multi-torrent, their clients seems not easy work with this multi-torrent. Don't know...
But when i see our current problem it would maybe better to switch now - or for the next release - back to single torrent files...
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 17:45 GMT
Should the i686-ftp.img be versioned -2 then?

Multi-torrents: I agree. I like single files. But let me point this out - if people are using clients that can't separate files easily, then I'm sure they don't support webseeds either. Perhaps we should list "recommended clients", as not all of them support webseeds
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 17:59 GMT
I see no need for a -2 Version. Just overwrite the broken with the correct image...
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 18:22 GMT
No, the image has to have a different name. One should never release a file and then something different with the same name. This just confuses everyone. So delete the borken one and copy the new one as -2

What I learn by this is that the multi file torrent wasn't that great. (Well, I did not expect that one image is completly broken)

I think I'll create new separate torrent files (maybe without webseed support) but let the old torrent live to not annoy people who currently use that one.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 18:32 GMT
Uploading the -2 image to my public_html/archiso dir right now. The offset mount above works as expected, but I didn't have time to test - ETA in 12mins or so, would someone mind testing to see if it boots (at least), then I will move it to the ftp dir
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 18:35 GMT
I just moved the broken image to my homedir (just in case) so the mirrors could start deleting it. :-)
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 18:47 GMT
Do we have any idea what the cause was? dolby, you had this with the rc's? can you elaborate? do you have a link to a ML/forum thread, ticket,.. ?
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 19:30 GMT
The new iamge does boot in qemu and seems to have the correct size.

02dfe8a74ca7cd767ce974be9d3ea585 archlinux-2009.02-2-ftp-i686.img
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 19:31 GMT
Copied to the iso ftp dir
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 19:36 GMT
md5sums and sha1sums are updated; preparing the torrent stuff now
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 19:50 GMT
When that's done I'll update the download page - thanks for all the work Pierre :)
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 19:51 GMT
Boots also on real hardware.
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 20:03 GMT
Pierre is already working on the next step of world domination, hehe... If you can't use other's, make your own.... Psssttt ;-)
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 21:59 GMT
Well, I was somhow annyoed by linuxtracker. It did not let me seed a torrent because it was unknown to the tracker but on the other hand I couldn't upload it via the stupid web interface which complains that a torrent with this hash was already there. That was pretty much the point I thought it would be easier to setup a tracker myself.

So I have opentracker running at tracker.archlinux.de now. Maybe this is a nice test of having our own tracker.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 22:11 GMT
404'd for me :S
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 22:11 GMT
Or... does it not have a web interface?
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 17 February 2009, 22:58 GMT
No, just a tracker. Together with brain0 (who just wrote a small programm derived from ktorrent to create torrent files) and gerbra I am working on it.

The tracker is from http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ (the one that is used by piratebay) and really simple.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 00:01 GMT
OK, I have uploaded the new torrents to http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/ If everything is alright I can move them to the ftp.

They use the tracker at archlinux.de and have 53 webseed mirror enabled. This time one torrent per image.

Edit: torrents are in the ftp-dir now. Works fine with ktorrent and rtorrent.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 00:19 GMT
Opinions on the bittorrent section here:
http://phraktured.net/download-changes/
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 00:34 GMT
Maybe add a note that a webseed capable client will increase the download speed a lot.
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 00:45 GMT
Aaron+Pierre: looks ok, webseed hint maybe helpfull.

Thanks to Pierre and Thomas to set this up so quickly. This will made torrent tracking surely a more easier for us..!
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 01:31 GMT
One question left: Should I remove the multi-torrent which includes the borken image from the tracker?
Comment by Jonathan Frazier (wide-eye) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 01:38 GMT
it sounds like this point is irrelevant now, but the issue with linuxtracker may be because someone posted a working one yesterday (before I posted this bug report). the torrent summary shows it sharing the same md5sum as -2.
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=91790c063f84e06081aa9ba628e92d0664de2498

thanks for all the hard work.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 09:39 GMT
Shouldn't we update the announcement and download page? I can do the announcement, but the download page still points to the single torrent. We should also add the info about the corrected ftp usb image to the announcement.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 10:45 GMT
I took the liberty of creating a short news item about the new image and new torrents, now only the download page needs to be fixed!
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:04 GMT
Aaron has made already a draft with updated download informations. I think he (or Dusty) will put them online next time...
http://phraktured.net/download-changes/
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:10 GMT
http://phraktured.net/download-changes/ looks good to me. can someone put it live?
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 12:21 GMT
The hint about webseeds is still missing, otherwise it is fine. I don't know if I even have permissions to change it or where to put it.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 15:48 GMT
I will do it now
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 15:51 GMT
Suggestions for new announcement text?
Comment by Gerhard Brauer (GerBra) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 15:53 GMT
@Dusty: could you please update the download page for the ISOs like Aaron has it in this draft:
http://phraktured.net/download-changes/
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 15:55 GMT
Aaron how do you mean new annoucement text? You want to change it? the main 2009.02 release one or the archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img one?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 16:14 GMT
@Gerhard: Already done
@Dieter: I didn't see Thomas already announced it :)
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 16:25 GMT
Yes, I didn't want people to get confused by new files and such. Every hour that such a change stays unannounced causes at least 2 new bugreports or forum posts from users.
Comment by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 18:43 GMT
- new img: check
- mirrors in sync (most of them): check
- webseed note: check
- announcement: check
- download page update: check

looks like we can close this?

One more thing maybe: can someone add the link to http://www.archlinux.org/download/ also on http://www.archlinux.org/news/435/ . i would find that useful.

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