>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:13 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: 
> The rpm --checksig command simply returned to the command prompt. That is, 
> there was no output from the command, but there was no error, either.

Ok, that's not good.  You should have gotten _something_ back.  If everything 
was good, you would have seen this:
# rpm --checksig xalan-j2-2.6.0-21.2.noarch.rpm
xalan-j2-2.6.0-21.2.noarch.rpm: sha1 md5 gpg OK

> When I run the md5sum command, it goes to the next line and seems to wait 
> for input. It does not output anything that looks even remotely like the 
> checksum (if that's what it is) that you show. I can cancel it by typing 
> <CTRL>-c, but I still get no output.

That's because you're being a little impatient.  The command has to grind 
through the 4GB+ of data and generate the checksum.  That can take a while, 
particularly on a loaded (or simply just slow) system.

> I think that maybe I should just go download the new iso file, just on 
> general principals. Might as well be working with the latest version.

I agree whole heartedly with that sentiment.  There really are some very nice 
things in SP1, and of course lots of bug fixes.


Mark Post

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