https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282228
Bug ID: 1282228 Summary: Problems Verifying Checksums on both Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux Product: Fedora Documentation Version: devel Component: install-guide Severity: medium Assignee: pbokoc@redhat.com Reporter: ajstewart426@gmail.com QA Contact: docs-qa@lists.fedoraproject.org CC: pbokoc@redhat.com, zach@oglesby.co
Description of problem:
shasum and sha256 sum do not like the format of your checksum files for some reason.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso Fedora-Workstation-23-x86_64-CHECKSUM
How reproducible:
Follow the instructions in section 3.3.2
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the Fedora image and appropriate checksum file. I was using the versions listed above. I tried both saving the checksum webpage itself and copying and pasting the text into a txt file. 2. In a terminal, navigate to the directory containing the files 3. For Linux: $ sha256sum -c *CHECKSUM For OS X: $ shasum -a 256 -c *CHECKSUM
Actual results:
When running the above commands on both OS X and Ubuntu, I get something along the lines of the following: shasum: Fedora-Workstation-23-x86_64-CHECKSUM: no properly formatted SHA1 checksum lines found For some reason it does not like the formatting of your files.
Expected results:
Something saying the checksum is valid I assume.
Additional info:
When I remove the -c option, it spits out the checksum itself. I was able to manually verify the download that way. This solution should be sufficient for most users. At least, it's better than having them run into the above error message. A better solution would involve figuring out why it doesn't like the formatting. I tried switching the line-ending characters from \n to \r\n since that's such a common problem but it didn't help. If you want any more detailed information on how to recreate this bug just let me know.