MD5 checksum error

[last.cowboy]

I want to test the "unofficial matrox linux driver" on my Suse 11.1 to see whether it provides more 3D functionality (e.g. desktop effects, etc.). I followed the steps described in the howto but the installation script stopped at the very beginning with an MD5 checksum error. Downloading with Firefox and also with Konqueror did not report any errors.
Here are the shell messages:

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig
Cloning configuration file /proc/config.gz

#
# configuration written to .config
#
bigboss:/usr/src/linux # make modules_prepare
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: /usr/bin/tail: Keine Berechtigung
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 26: /usr/bin/tail: Keine Berechtigung
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: /usr/bin/tail: Keine Berechtigung
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 26: /usr/bin/tail: Keine Berechtigung
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
bigboss:/usr/src/linux # cd /tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver/
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # l
insgesamt 3092
drwxr-xr-x 2 tom users 4096 15. Mär 14:11 ./
drwxrwxrwt 30 root root 4096 15. Mär 14:17 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3152669 15. Mär 14:11 matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4-installer.run*
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # ./matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4-installer.run
Please, enter the directory to extract the files [/root/] ./
Creating directory .//matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4
Verifying archive integrity..../matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4-installer.run: line 99: tr: command not found
expr: Syntaxfehler
expr: Syntaxfehler
Error in MD5 checksums: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is different from 9ba5993efcf4630858cd0ef820ec8f53
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver #

Any idea what might go wrong?

[tuxx-home.at]

You need to be root to install the driver or run 'make cloneconfig'.

I don't know if SuSE follows the current sudo hype, but if it does, try again and prepend the command 'sudo' before all the above mentioned commands, e.g.: 'sudo make cloneconfig'.

Otherwise, issue 'su -', then type in your root password when prompted and run the above given commands again with root privileges.

[last.cowboy]

I did all that while being logged in as root - but I'll try again using "sudo"...

[last.cowboy]

"Sudo" doesn't help.
And just to show: The MD5 error occurs while being logged in as root.

bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # whoami
root
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # ./matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4-installer.run
Please, enter the directory to extract the files [/root/] ./
Creating directory .//matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4
Verifying archive integrity..../matroxdriver_mga-x86_32-4.4.4-installer.run: line 99: tr: command not found
expr: syntax error
expr: syntax error
Error in MD5 checksums: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is different from 9ba5993efcf4630858cd0ef820ec8f53
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver #

[tuxx-home.at]

Oh, OK, sorry, I was overwhelmed by the tons of error messages you got while executing the installer script.
It seems as if you're missing the "/usr/bin/tr" command, which is needed by the installer. Well, tr is part of the coreutils package on Debian so I don't know what the name of this package is for OpenSUSE, but, you're definetely missing some core functionalities in your system.

[tuxx-home.at]

Another thing that's really strange is the output from your first posting:

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/usr/bin/tail: Keine Berechtigung


Can you post the output of the command `ls -l /usr/bin/tail`, please?

[last.cowboy]

bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # ls -l /usr/bin/tail
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 /usr/bin/tail
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver #

[last.cowboy]

Is /usr/bin/tr a command? I have a directory called /usr/bin/tr:

bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver # l /usr/bin/tr
total 220
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 21:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 69632 Mar 13 22:33 ../
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1712 Jul 19 2006 Elfica3001.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1476 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 540 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite_alt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1496 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1532 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormal12.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 544 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormalA12.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1548 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormal_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1452 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldor.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 604 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1124 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1152 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1456 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldor_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1476 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenya.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 620 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1148 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1156 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1480 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenya_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1456 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarin.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 620 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1128 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1128 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1468 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarin_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1692 Jul 19 2006 TengwarTelerin.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 796 Jul 19 2006 UnicodeParmaite.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1708 Jul 19 2006 tngan.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1756 Jul 19 2006 tngan_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 856 Jul 19 2006 tngana.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 864 Jul 19 2006 tnganab.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 928 Jul 19 2006 tnganabi.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 928 Jul 19 2006 tnganai.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1720 Jul 19 2006 tnganb.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1772 Jul 19 2006 tnganb_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1672 Jul 19 2006 tnganbi.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1772 Jul 19 2006 tnganbi_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1656 Jul 19 2006 tngani.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1744 Jul 19 2006 tngani_full.tfm
bigboss:/tmp/Matrox_unofficial_driver #

[tuxx-home.at]

WTF?
It seems as if there's some serious problem with your /usr/bin directory. I guess that most of the files in there aren't executable. In this specific case, please fix it by running the following command:

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chmod 755 /usr/bin/tail


Usually, all files in /usr/bin should be executable, so it would be possible to simply run

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chmod a+x /usr/bin/*


to fix all permission issues in this directory if more file are affected.

The rule of thumb is, that "all" files in /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin and /sbin should be executable.
So if there are any files in these four directories on your system that do not look like:

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rwxr-xr-x    ....


you need to fix that before continuing.
I don't know how that could happen to your system, but I'm fascinated that it still works. Don't reboot until you fixed that, chances are high that your system won't come up anymore.

Regarding your post about /usr/bin/tr being a directory: WTF²?
What happened to your system?

Are you sure that everything is alright with this system?

[last.cowboy]

Well, so far everything runs...
I just checked the directories, in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin all files are executable, in /usr/bin most are also - but not all. Whyever...
I'll change all to executable and try another run.

[last.cowboy]

Same files, different errors:

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig
Cloning configuration file /proc/config.gz

#
# configuration written to .config
#
bigboss:/usr/src/linux # make modules_prepare
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: /usr/bin/tail: cannot execute binary file
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 26: /usr/bin/tail: cannot execute binary file
scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 25: /usr/bin/tail: cannot execute binary file
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.19-3.2/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 26: /usr/bin/tail: cannot execute binary file
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
bigboss:/usr/src/linux #

It seems those files are not supposed to be executable...

[tuxx-home.at]

Yes, that's a good idea. And then, there's still the "tr" issue which needs to be taken care of.

According to packages.debian.org, the files you have in /usr/bin/tr should usually be in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/tfm/public/tengwarscript/.
Does this directory exist on your system?

Regarding your latest error message:
Can you please post the output of the command `file /usr/bin/tail`?

[last.cowboy]

The tex-directory is named a little bit different but the subdirectory is there:

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # l /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/tengwarscript/
total 152
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 21:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 149 root root 4096 Feb 15 22:06 ../
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1712 Jul 19 2006 Elfica3001.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1476 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 540 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite_alt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1496 Jul 19 2006 Parmaite_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1532 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormal12.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 544 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormalA12.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1548 Jul 19 2006 TengwarFormal_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1452 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldor.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 604 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1124 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1152 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldorCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1456 Jul 19 2006 TengwarNoldor_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1476 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenya.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 620 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1148 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1156 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenyaCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1480 Jul 19 2006 TengwarQuenya_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1456 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarin.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 620 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinAlt.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1128 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinCapitals1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1128 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarinCapitals2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1468 Jul 19 2006 TengwarSindarin_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1692 Jul 19 2006 TengwarTelerin.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 796 Jul 19 2006 UnicodeParmaite.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1708 Jul 19 2006 tngan.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1756 Jul 19 2006 tngan_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 856 Jul 19 2006 tngana.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 864 Jul 19 2006 tnganab.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 928 Jul 19 2006 tnganabi.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 928 Jul 19 2006 tnganai.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1720 Jul 19 2006 tnganb.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1772 Jul 19 2006 tnganb_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1672 Jul 19 2006 tnganbi.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1772 Jul 19 2006 tnganbi_full.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1656 Jul 19 2006 tngani.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1744 Jul 19 2006 tngani_full.tfm
bigboss:/usr/src/linux #

The output for file /usr/bin/tail

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # file /usr/bin/tail
/usr/bin/tail: TeX font metric data (UNSPECIFIED)

Would be interesting whether that's the general way Suse systems are set up or whether just my PC is messed up...

[tuxx-home.at]

Your pc is messed up. Something with the texmf setup has gone completely wrong. tail is an essential tool used by many scripts, as well as tr is.
If I would be in front of this system, I could fix that, without being in front of the system it's really hard to do that.

A few options for you:
* Reinstall your operating system
* try to reinstall most of the core packages, like coreutils, binutils, etc. in the hope that things get fixed then
* Do some googling on the error messages you got, maybe it's a known problem with OpenSUSE and someone already posted a howto about how to fix that issue.

[last.cowboy]

It seems the texlive installation went somehow wrong (I did that a few days after the system installation using the standard yast routines) - the messed up files in /usr/bin are somehow related to texlive now...

/usr/bin/touch was also one of the not executable files

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # file /usr/bin/touch
/usr/bin/touch: TeX font metric data (FontSpecific)

/usr/bin/sort is also a directory with some tfm-files in it

bigboss:/usr/src/linux # l /usr/bin/sort/
total 100
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 15 21:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 69632 Mar 13 22:33 ../
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary10.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary5.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary6.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary7.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary8.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 912 Jan 9 2006 stmary9.tfm

I guess I have to reinstall my system...

Thanks for your help.