Re: 2.4.18rc4aa1

H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-25T14:42:01Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:25:31PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:55:31 +0100
>>Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>URL:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18rc4aa1.gz
>>> ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.18rc4aa1/
>>>
>>
>>Andrea, I think there's an error on compressed files.
>>-2 times downloaded .gz file(1'3 MB?)= unexpected end of file
>>-1 time downloaded .bz2 file: Compressed file ends unexpectedly
>>
>
> I guess one mirror gone wild, CC'ed to Peter just in case he knows. (I
> upload to the staging area, and then an atomic move will make the inode
> visible in /pub, so it shouldn't a problem triggered during the upload
> stage and a wget on the above url worked for me infact)
>
> (ah, an of course remeber to use binary ftp download :)
>

Without the IP number of the offending mirror, there is little or no
hope to track down the problem, if there is one.

-hpa