Bug 104035

Summary: Media Check fails....
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Forgotten User Q7j4vRyDQt <forgotten_Q7j4vRyDQt>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aj, snwint
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: All   
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Description Forgotten User Q7j4vRyDQt 2005-08-11 07:25:46 UTC 
During the installation process, I go thru Media Check which is a recommended
procedure to avoid installation problems.   I start the check.  After the check
completes, I get a failure message.  This is the output....

Identification: SuSE-Linux-CD-i386-10.0
Medium : CD1
Size : 717224 kB
Expected MD5: 69add54bff98a2bbb010142764609b2b
Result:  Failed (MD5: <----not same as above----->)

This happens for the OSS version too.

However, I see no issues during the installation and the system comes up
normally. I could get almost applications to run successfully.

Verified with Andreas Jeager and found that he is also facing the same problem.
Comment 1 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-11 08:58:21 UTC 
I cannot reproduce it.

(Note: You can use checkmedia utility directly, it's used also by the yast module.)

At first I verfied that the ISO image is OK:

# checkmedia SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-Beta1-CD1.iso

  app: SuSE-Linux-CD-i386-10.0
media: CD1
 size: 717224 kB
  md5: 69add54bff98a2bbb010142764609b2b
check: 100%
check: md5sum ok

then I burned the image by k3b (I enabled medium verification after burning - it
was OK)

# checkmedia /dev/hdb
  app: SuSE-Linux-CD-i386-10.0
media: CD1
 size: 717224 kB
  md5: 69add54bff98a2bbb010142764609b2b
check: 100%
check: md5sum ok

I verified that in 3 different machines (with different CD drives, even a very
old CD drive passed) and no problem have occured.

Could you test whether the dowloaded image is correct? Did you enable
verification during burning the image?

It can also be hardware related.
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-11 09:04:34 UTC 
Looks like the usual padding problem. You should see the kernel logging 
read errors. Running 'checkmedia' manually will probably show read errors 
as well.
Comment 3 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-11 10:29:38 UTC 
Yes, wrong padding can also cause this problem. Did you use padding option? How
did you burn the image?
Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-11 15:15:48 UTC 
Andreas, did you have the same problem?
Comment 5 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-11 19:05:10 UTC 
Yes, had the same problem - but I then found the error messages
reading the media, so this was a CD read problem.
Comment 6 Forgotten User Q7j4vRyDQt 2005-08-13 06:55:33 UTC 
I gave to IS&T folks locally here to burn it.   I think they are using the Nero
burner on windows to burn it.   It doesn't have any padding option.   Also, I
checked with k3b.   Where do I specify padding option here ?

I will wait till Beta 2 to check this again and then close it.
Comment 7 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-15 08:35:36 UTC 
K3b probably doesn't have padding option, I used the default settings. The only
one option which I changed was verifying (I turned it on). And the checks
(checkmedia and verification in k3b) were OK.
Comment 8 Ladislav Slezák 2005-08-19 07:26:24 UTC 
Please, test with Beta2
Comment 9 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-19 08:28:48 UTC 
The problem will be gone in beta-3. Hopefully.
Comment 10 Andreas Jaeger 2005-09-03 15:35:17 UTC 
It is gone for me - if not, pleaes reopen.
Comment 11 Forgotten User Q7j4vRyDQt 2005-09-05 12:19:48 UTC 
Verified this in Beta4.  This is working for me now.