Benjamin Scott wrote:

> On Fri, 10 May 2002, at 1:47pm, mike ledoux wrote:
> > All that aside, I find it slightly insane to abort the entire installation
> > because there was an error reading the RPM for wine-devel.
>
>   Error checking has never been Red Hat's strong point.  I remember
> encountering a bad CD drive with the 4.0 installer.  The messages went like
> this:
>
>         gzip: I/O error
>         tar: unexpected end of archive
>         No such file or directory
>         Segmentation fault
>         Unmounting filesystems
>         Kernel panic: (mumble)
>
>   For want of a nail...

The possibillity also exists that the fault is caused by either faulty memory or
insufficient heat dissipation on the CPU. Most CPUs never get taxed much but
compress/uncompressing can heat up a processor quickly and I have seen the above
problem installing FreeBSD, fixing the fan made the problem go away.

hth,

Will Flagg






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