Re: stable kernel checksumming fails

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Mar 07 2021 - 10:49:35 EST


On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 03:45:15PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > checksumming the downloaded kernel manually gives an "Okay" though.
> > >
> > >
> > > is this just me (on Fedora 33) ?
> >
> > Fails for me on Arch:
> >
> > Verifying checksum on linux-5.11.4.tar.xz
> > /usr/bin/sha256sum: /home/gregkh/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.gZo313NCk.untrusted/sha256sums.txt: no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found
> > FAILED to verify the downloaded tarball checksum
> >
> >
> > Konstantin, anything change recently?
>
> I think it's just cache invalidation problems. I've committed a tiny change to
> the script that always grabs that file from the origin servers instead of
> going via the CDN.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/commit/?id=71e570c5f090b5740e323f98504bf38592785b49
>
> This should sidestep the problem.
>
> -K

Nice, fixed it for me, thanks!

Ronald, does it now work for you too?

greg k-h