On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Xavier schrieb: >> >> Shouldn't pacman md5 check catch bad download? >> The md5 of kernel26-2.6.28.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is normally stored in >> the database, and pacman normally checks this after a download. > > This could only have happened due to some corruption during extraction! > Sounds weird, but these things happen occasionally.
Yeah I would put it on extraction corruption if in fact the md5sum download check didn't alert you to any errors. It's a shame you didn't hold onto that old package file though... You don't have any bad sectors on your HDD, do you? -Dan
