VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Product Binary Issues

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

When mapping binaries in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, the task fails with an error similar to this:

Error Code: LCMSOURCEMAPPING10011
Source mapping failed because one or more files used are invalid. Ensure valid source files are used and perform source mapping.
One or more files used for source mapping are invalid. ERROR := tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains ‘\020\345o\335E\b\377`\215\377\320o’ where numeric off_t value expected tar: Archive contains ‘/ø\0\2733]\246\2011\266"’ where numeric off_t value expected tar: *.mf: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Environment

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

Binary file is corrupt or incomplete, causing the error when Lifecycle tries to extract it

Resolution

1. Verify that the MD5 Checksum matches the one provided on the Broadcom Support product download page
        How to perform a get-filehash, md5sum, or sha256sum for product binaries obtained from the download portal.
2. After the checksum matches, Map the Binaries once again.