Norvell,
I had the same problem... I was clearly due to a bad ISO image when I FTPed the ISO
image. You can check this by finding the MD5sum. Its unlikely this is your
problem but the symptoms were the same where some packages didnt want to install.
Werner
Norvell Spearman wrote:
> (1)
> Has anyone else gotten error messages from 7.1 installation similar to:
> ``Error installing package foo-bar-1.2.3. Continue or cancel?''
> Choosing continue would let install finish. After booting system for
> 1st time, I could then install the problem package. On my PC at work
> the ``bad'' package was one of the Mesa rpms, and at home a Zope package
> didn't install. I did both installs from the same CDs which a co-worker
> burned from iso images. Bad CDs maybe?
>
> (2)
> I already sent this as a bug report, but thought I'd ask here since I
> haven't heard back yet:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> My tape drive worked flawlessly with Linux-Mandrake 7.0. Before
> installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1, I backed up all my important data to my
> HP Colorado 8GB internal IDE tape drive. After backing up the data, I
> restored to a different directory to test it and had no problems. After
> wiping out my 7.0 install and installing 7.1, I can't read anything from
> my tape. I'm attaching the error message. I tried a different tape
> with no success. One weird thing, however: I can write to tape with
> 7.1 (tar cvzpf /dev/ht0 <files>), I just can't read from it. I tried
> /dev/MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.ide, attempting to re-generate any possibly bad
> dev entries for the tape. This also didn't help. Using the previous
> version of tar (from 7.0) didn't help, nor did taper have any success
> (taper also could write, but not read tape). I re-installed 7.0 and
> restored all my data with no problem.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root@localhost tmp]# tar xzvpf /dev/ht0
> tar (grandchild): /dev/ht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
> tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
> tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> [root@localhost tmp]# tar xzvpf /dev/nht0
> tar (grandchild): /dev/nht0: Cannot read: Input/output error
> tar (grandchild): At beginning of tape, quitting now
> tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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>
> Thanks very much for any help with this.
>
> ---Norvell Spearman
