Bug 455924 – install-amd64-minimal-20130110.iso: /lib/firmware.tar.bz2 is 0 bytes, init.d/firmware fails, /lib/firmware/ is empty

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Saša Golubič 2013-02-06 22:49:24 UTC]

Booting from install-amd64-minimal-20130110.iso allways produces this error:
Unpacking firmware 
bzip2 compressed file ends unexpectedly perhaps it is corrupted. 
bzip2 inappropriate ioctl for device input= (stdin) outfile= (stdout) 


After that booting continues without problem. 

Me and another guy on Gentoo forums with this problem. Both with ASROCK motherboards.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Insert install-amd64-minimal-20130110.iso in optical drive
2.boot with default options
3.

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2013-02-07 01:56:46 UTC]

FYI this is the same issue as bug 443024.  That bug is closed because the bug in catalyst that was causing the problem was fixed, but I think this report can/should remain open until a new installcd is released that includes the proper firmware tarball.

[Comment 2 Ben Kohler 2013-02-23 15:17:26 UTC]

*** Bug 458820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Pandu E Poluan 2013-04-24 05:36:39 UTC]

install-amd64-minimal-20130418.iso still exhibiting same error.

ll /lib/firm* returns:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Apr 18 06:36 /lib/firmware.tar.bz2

[Comment 4 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2013-04-26 12:57:23 UTC]

*** Bug 467320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Andrzej Hanczak 2013-04-26 17:34:13 UTC]

Same issue on the new 
install-amd64-minimal-20130425.iso

Why are the new ISOs generated with this bug? On a dell server PE2950, because of the lack of the firmware, there is no way to activate the network card.
I had to use some old ISO from 2012.

:-(

[Comment 6 Ben Kohler 2013-04-26 17:35:52 UTC]

There has not been a catalyst release since the bug was fixed in catalyst's source.  The build boxes are using the latest release version, as far as I know.  Hopefully we will see a new catalyst release very soon, catalyst devs are aware of the issue.

[Comment 7 Vamp898 2013-04-26 22:10:00 UTC]

I guess we cant count with a release until monday or?

If so, i have to use the good old Knoppix DVD :D as the Gentoo minimal doesnt find any harddisks in case of missing firmware for the controller

[Comment 8 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2013-04-27 16:39:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I guess we cant count with a release until monday or?
> 
> If so, i have to use the good old Knoppix DVD :D as the Gentoo minimal
> doesnt find any harddisks in case of missing firmware for the controller

You can use the latest CD in my server as the issue is fixed there[1].
I'll try to get this fixed in the release box this weekend.

 [1] - http://www.jmbsvicetto.name/releases/auto/amd64/default/20130422/install-amd64-minimal-20130422.iso

[Comment 9 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2013-05-06 00:05:39 UTC]

*** Bug 468656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Ben Kohler 2013-05-21 15:41:15 UTC]

FYI this is now fixed in install-amd64-minimal-20130516.iso but we don't have a new x86 iso just yet.

[Comment 11 Ben Kohler 2013-05-30 15:52:00 UTC]

Fixed in install-x86-minimal-20130528.iso too.