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Re: Archive is cpio archive. Decompression error.

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:53:11 +0000

Hello:

nixer wrote:

... it is a bug and it has not been identified and fixed.
... see it rarely, but I do see it on certain installs - and I can not tell what I do to create it.

For what it is worth, I have been told that this type of 'bug' is referred to as Heisenbug.
ie: a sporadic and non-reproducible bug

Real fun to work on. 8^°

Best,

Re: Archive is cpio archive. Decompression error.

dummy@example.com (nixer) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:40:43 +0000

To my knowledge, it is a bug and it has not been identified and fixed. I see it rarely, but I do see it on certain installs - and I can not tell what I do to create it. On those systems that do have this bug, I always remember to remove the intel-microcode package before making the snapshot.iso file. Then I install it later. In other words, only shows in certain installs and I do not know why, yet. Yes, it is a hassle, but a small inconvenience in my humble opinion.

fsr may chime in and give an update and/or explanation.

Archive is cpio archive. Decompression error.

dummy@example.com (PsySc0rpi0n) — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:26:20 +0000

Hello.

Following this thread, I started a new one because the other one was already quite old
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2952

This is my scenario:
I created a qcow image file and burn Debian Bookworm there. Then I boot it and installed everything I needed there and then I tried to use refractasnapshot to buil an ISO I could take in a pen to my work.

However, at some point I get this error:

"Archive is cpio archive."

And in the logs I could see something relate to intel-microcode and also [ 0 -ne 2 ].

I decided to try to uninstall this package "intel-microcode" and repeat the process. This time there was no decompression error.

So, what is wrong with "intel-microcode"? Is there a workaround?