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 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
