error while extraction RPM -cpio: premature end of file

[Poonam Gupta]

Hello Everyone,

 

For network packet generation/analyzation , I  had downloaded ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm  for my Linux machine.(From - https://code.google.com/p/ostinato/wiki/Downloads?tm=2)

The rpm available for download was for CentOs , which could be used for Red hat Linux as well ( as mentioned there).

 

 

My Linux Machine:

$ uname -a

Linux s007246a 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Thu Jul 26 06:08:24 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

 

 

 

Upon copying it to the linux machine, rpm query gave the following output :

 

$ file ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm

ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm: RPM v3.0 bin i386/x86_64 ostinato-0.5.1-1.3

 

$ rpm -qlp ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm

warning: ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f7aa50b3
/usr/bin/drone
/usr/bin/ostinato
/usr/share/doc/ostinato-0.5.1
/usr/share/doc/ostinato-0.5.1/COPYING

 

On extarcting ,following is the error I got :

 

$ rpm2cpio ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm | cpio -idmv

cpio: warning: skipped 3595 bytes of junk
cpio: ÎüÄÅ<,
            cpio: premature end of file

 

  

Could anyone please suggest , what could have gone wrong ?

 

 

Thanks in advance

Poonam

 

 

[Kartik Mistry]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Poonam Gupta
<poonamgu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ rpm2cpio ostinato-0.5.1-1.3.i686.rpm | cpio -idmv
> cpio: warning: skipped 3595 bytes of junk
> cpio: ÎüÄÅ<,
> cpio: premature end of file
>
> Could anyone please suggest , what could have gone wrong ?

Verify md5sum of downloaded RPM.

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