Re: stable kernel checksumming fails

[Bhaskar Chowdhury]

On 15:45 Sun 07 Mar 2021, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 03:10:49PM +0100, Ronald Warsow wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > getting stable kernels with this script:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/tree/get-verified-tarball
> >
> >
> > fails since the last 2 (?) stable releases with (last lines):
> >
> > ...
> >
> > + /usr/bin/curl -L -o
> > /home/ron/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.1GiZid5WT.untrusted/linux-5.11.4.tar.xz
> > https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.11.4.tar.xz
> >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
> > Current
> >                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
> > Speed
> > 100  112M  100  112M    0     0  5757k      0  0:00:19  0:00:19 --:--:--
> > 5938k
> >
> > pushd ${TMPDIR} >/dev/null
> > + pushd /home/ron/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.1GiZid5WT.untrusted
> > echo "Verifying checksum on linux-${VER}.tar.xz"
> > + echo 'Verifying checksum on linux-5.11.4.tar.xz'
> > Verifying checksum on linux-5.11.4.tar.xz
> > if ! ${SHA256SUMBIN} -c ${SHACHECK}; then
> >     echo "FAILED to verify the downloaded tarball checksum"
> >     popd >/dev/null
> >     rm -rf ${TMPDIR}
> >     exit 1
> > fi
> > + /usr/bin/sha256sum -c
> > /home/ron/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.1GiZid5WT.untrusted/sha256sums.txt
> > /usr/bin/sha256sum:
> > /home/ron/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.1GiZid5WT.untrusted/sha256sums.txt:
> > no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found
> > + echo 'FAILED to verify the downloaded tarball checksum'
> > FAILED to verify the downloaded tarball checksum
> > + popd
> > + rm -rf /home/ron/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.1GiZid5WT.untrusted
> > + exit 1
> >
> >
> > 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
I can confirm it works alright with me on OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Slackware
...yet to test on others....Debian....Arch and Gentoo ...
>

Oh btw ...sometimes I got that specific error because of lack of dns
propogation to dns stuff in some reason...


> Konstantin, anything change recently?

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