[6986] in testers
Re: failed 9.4 update on opus.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 17 12:47:47 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Rolfe <arolfe@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu, sipb-office@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:46:12 -0400
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Thanks for reporting this.
When an update "Failed to run transactions", we have to go hunting
earlier up in the update log to figure out why. This requires a certain
amount of ability to distinguish between harmless messages and harmful
ones; in this case, the harmful one is:
+ ImageMagick ###########################################error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.0.7.1/www/api/magick_wand.html;42894f9e: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
Since we haven't seen this error elsewhere, and a manual update to the
relevant version of the RPM works fine, I'm inclined to blame W20's
network.
Fortunately, the update system can recover from this problem gracefully.
I've re-run the update (which did nothing, since I manually updated the
ImageMagick RPM) and rebooted the machine. From my remote perspective,
it looks like it came up okay.
