On Oct 4, 2010, at 01:05 , Stephen Linton wrote: > Dear GAP Forum, > > This shouldn't happen, and suggests that your download might have been > corrupted in some way. For instance, is it possible that you ran out of disk > space > while downloading or unpacking the distribution? This can result in files > being truncated.
Meant to comment on this but it got kind of late last night. First thing: if disk space ran out, there would be repercussions. I don't think 'tar' would be pleased, and also, I would get complaints in my syslog. Neither happened, so I think we can rule that out. I ran 'md5' on the tarball: MD5 (gap4r4p12.tar.bz2) = 2808c00e85e98843bb0e1a62c33ad5f0 I didn't see a checksum mentioned on the website but maybe I missed it. This should be a quick check to verify whether tarball corruption is an issue. If it were, I would again expect 'tar' to be unhappy, but "stuff happens". Is there anything I missed here? Thanks! Justin -- Justin C. Walker Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -- Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
