If the tarball appears corrupt, but its MD5 sum matches the checksum file available next to the tarball itself, then something's seriously wrong. Otherwise, yeah, it's a bad download. (Which is also a problem, but less severe. We'll see if there's anything we can do to alleviate this.)
- Pam On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Finnur Thorarinsson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Yeah, sorry about this; I've been bitten by this in the past as well. :( > It seems the server periodically fails and the client thinks that the > download is complete even though the file isn't fully downloaded. This > happens across browser (I tried IE, FF and Chrome), and when it fails it > fails on all - but then later seems to all of a sudden start working and > works fine (for a while). Some people have reported a workaround in using > Firefox and resuming the download when it fails. This failure hasn't > happened for me in a while, so I haven't verified it. > > This is also touched upon in this bug report: > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1833 > (you can star it in case someone updates it with some progress) > > In any case, I've asked some people here to take a look at this problem. > Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this soon. > > Best regards, > Finnur > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 16:25, Dremation <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I've downloaded the ball 3 times and used 3 different applications to >> extract the ball with errors each time. The error is "Unexpected end >> of archive" What gives? I downloaded the first 2 times using Chrome >> and the 3rd with IE. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
