Michael, Thank you for being the first person to give me some clear information on this! Knowing that the checksum is done (which seemed logical) firmly points the finger at my system as you suggest.
Its strange that the error seems almost 100% repeatable with large updates and almost never occurs outside of them although I have had a couple of random restarts and seen some one bit errors in other large files such as big sql dumps. I have run memtest and not got any errors but I'll run it again for a decent period and see what turns up. I've scanned the drives and not found anything but I'm not sure how to ensure that the swap space gets checked properly - should I worry about that too? Thanks for your help. It does look as though this is not a bug after all. -- package mysql-server-5.0 5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu10.2 failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520170 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
