On 08/05/2011 11:16 PM, knebroski wrote:
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> I did mention that I am a newbie. :\
SORRY, i have given some wrong (and stupid) advice in this thread, and i
apologize for that…
today, fresh in the morning with coffee it is easy for me to see that
sending you to a mirror was just plain wrong…
because the troubling file in the error message (from you earlier post)
The expected checksum of file
/var/cache/zypp/raw/Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0dC6gK3/repodata/4455a267b51071d54d9f3a85c0cdc916842f810c-deltainfo.xml.gz
is 4455a267b51071d54d9f3a85c0cdc916842f810c,
but the current checksum is 6f4886ed7ac911f2ab4e492ad1df96c2bfe28e47.
This means that the file has been changed by accident or by an
attacker since the repository creator signed it. Using it is a big risk
for the integrity and security of your system.
Use it anyway?
is generated and held on your machine, independent of the mirrors
truth is that i really do not know what caused the checksum of that file
to be changed…but i do have some info and ideas:
Info 1. i would always answer that “Use it anyway?” question with a NO!
(and so would Carlos–if he and i ever give different advice, always
follow his)…which means, if you also answered Yes after your second
install (mentioned in post #6 above) then there will be a need to
install again…
but, if you answered “No” then GREAT…but, we need to find out what is
messing with that file…
and, i have a theory (which may be as wrong as sending you to a
mirror…we shall see):
- i carefully reread your initial post and see:
I then rebooted the machine and did the install.
I then ran “zypper update” (according to some doc I just read) (on
Fedora, this is the point when I would have run the update tool as
well).
I then get numerous “Wrong Digest” errors …
so, it sounds like maybe you interrupted the normal flow of the
openSUSE install routine [which might differ from Fedora’s] by running
that “zypper update” when you did…
if you install while connected to the net, the install routine
automatically will do all the initial updating and a reboot is done
while still in the install routine…before you need to do any updates…
that is, what you apparently had to do in Fedora (immediate manual
update) is not normally required in openSUSE…so, i think what
happened was the system told you it had installed the system and you ran
“zypper update” right then…but, in fact while the new system was
installed it had not yet been automatically updated…that is the system
had already built an update cache in anticipation of its first boot, but
maybe you ran zypper before that boot occurred (which it should have
during the install script)…
is that possible?
or
- maybe you have a disk problem of some kind:
-what is the file system in use for the partition where /var lives?
-tell us about that drive: how old, how big
-are you using raid?
> I’m done for the day, I’ve played (wasted to much time on this for one
> week) and will continue on Monday,
welcome to monday!
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