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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:10:51 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crazy md5, sha256, bzip2 behaviour, frequent crashes RAM problem?
Message-ID:  <47BF1E3B.80108@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802221147.45159.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
References:  <74067.1203596816@critter.freebsd.dk> <200802221147.45159.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>

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Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Στις Thursday 21 February 2008 14:26:56 ο/η Poul-Henning Kamp έγραψε:
>> In message <200802211406.40612.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>, Achilleas Mantzio
>> s writes:
>>> Hi,
>>> i've struggling to build sysutils/coreutils and a crazy thing happens:
>>> each time i do 
>>> fetch ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.9.tar.bz2
>>> and while ls -l gives the exact same size (5384378), md5,sha256 give different checksums each time!
>> Bad hardware.
>>
> 
> Indeed. Changing memory dims and the port built/installed ok.
> What worries me, is if i can trust the system as is, (while i have some 600 ports installed)
> or rebuild everything.
> artsd from kde behaves in a strange way (noatun skiping every 2nd second of mp3),
> and i wander that if a rebuild of artsd solves the problem, then maybe i might worry
> of the correctness of the whole system.

It is very likely that many other things you created on this system 
(e.g. compiled binaries, modified files, etc) are also corrupted.  A 
complete rebuild or reinstall would be a good idea.

Kris



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