Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:32:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-admin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-19981226-SNAP/src/ssys.ac is corrupt Message-ID: <199901040832.AAA11061@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:32:17 %2B0900." <36906E81.D5AB960A@newsguy.com>
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> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > > Can someone fix this? and perhaps guide me as to where there might be a > > > mirror that is not corrupt? (I hope the CD wasn't cut from this src). > > > > There's nothing wrong with this file - the problem is somewhere on > > your end, or between our two sites. There's absolutely nothing we > > can do about it here. > > Err... I happen to have seen the exact same problem. I tried four > times to install the sys sources, and each time the connection would > stop at the precise same point. > > Maybe my provider uses a Cisco, as you suggest on another message, > who knows... But having the connection stop at the precise point > four times with me, and at least one more time with the person above > (I can't be sure it was the same point with him, but it looks like > the same file, at least), while every thing else on a developer > install with full sources came correctly... how could that be? This is usually a "magic byte sequence" which blows the brains out of something in the transit path. We've seen a few of these. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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