After you get the checksum alert screen, open up an xterm and cd to /tmp or where ever you specified for the download files. Since I do not delete aborted downloads, you should see in that directory both the md5 and the extension. Now manually do a checksum on the suspect extension, i.e.,
md5sum -c jre1_5_0.tar.gz.md5.txt
Downloading via other means won't tell me much, as the most variable of all is the latency of the internet. Unless a reproducible error can be produced, there is not much I can do. I have yet to get a checkcum error on any file that I have downloaded. In fact, I had to make a BAD md5 file on my webserver just to verify that the code would produce the checksum alert.
Also, Chris, if it works on some extensions and not others that would then not point to the code. The code is not variable, the extensions and conditions of the network and the internet are.
Checksuming was one of the most requested features as users were loading corrupted extensions caused by bad downloads. For liveCD just reboot but for hard drive installs it was causing much grief.
But please let me know the results for the manual checksum check.I'll give this a shot and see what happens. It just may have been an internet thing that day. I did receive the error on all extensions I tried to d/l from the gui. It just seemed strange because I received the error on the xchat.uci but it ran fine when I loaded it. I may have just been lucky. I'll post my findings tonight.
ChrisRobert,
Here goes: 62a87f1a0da965cbe84946a12e5a246b
I got the same results on all three of my atempts.
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Here goes: 62a87f1a0da965cbe84946a12e5a246b
I got the same results on all three of my atempts.
Joel, that is not a valid checksum! The checksum should be: 4d490665b99b100d50feab7268c805aa jre1_5_0.tar.gz OK. So you are getting bad downloads.
Second test, lets try this: Manually download the extension using the same construct as in the code, that being: wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub.....tar.gz
Then check it with md5sum for the proper checksum.
If still not correct then try this test: Change the protocol of wget from http to ftp and repeat the test.
Please let me know. Thanks, RobertRobert,
It worked fine and the checksum was correct when manully downloading it, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I used the myDSL button in emelFM to install it. I hope this helps somehow.Next Page...
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