Unfortunately, I just switched to a different computer.  Though an
older version of Ubuntu might work, yes.
-Thomas

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Huib Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> never tried a local copy with 1 or 2G files.
>
> This bug renders my system useless as I move big files around, for that
> reason I now moved to FreeBSD.
>
> What did you do about this issue?? Installed older version of Ubuntu?
>
> Greetz,
>
> Huib
>
>> Have you tried copying locally with very large files (1-2 GB)?  The
>> corruption didn't occur for me with smaller files locally.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Huib Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> on a clean install of ubuntu 8.04 (AMD kernel version) I get this very
>>> same error: random bytes get mangled but the byte value as documented
>>> above always differ value 10!
>>>
>>> After reverting back to the i386 kernel I still have the same error. The
>>> corruption only happens in network traffic (ftp or samba) when I upload
>>> the file to the linux server.
>>>
>>> I changed from AMD to I386 kernel --> problem persists
>>> I swapped NIC's from onboard attansic/atheros (ATL1) to Intel Pro
>>> (E1000E) --> problem persists
>>> copy files locally -> no problem
>>> I installed FreeBSD 7 -> no problem
>>>
>>> Seems to be network related but not the specific driver and it happens
>>> only to the bigger files (>20Mbytes)
>>>
>>> Hardware:
>>> - Asus M3A-H/HDMI 780G
>>> - AMD Athlon 4450e
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regression: File corruption on amd64/nVidia with 2.6.22-14-generic
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162478
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>>> of the bug.
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Regression: File corruption on amd64/nVidia with 2.6.22-14-generic
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162478
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>> Status in “linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22† source package in Ubuntu:
>> Invalid
>>
>> Bug description:
>> I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy using the update manager, and a few days
>> later I started having problems.  First, it showed up as bad downloads
>> using apt-get (one of which happened to be libc6, which made my system
>> unbootable for a while).  Then apt-get started segfaulting (bad files in
>> /var/cache/apt).  Later, I downloaded a 20MB zip file I was trying to use
>> 3 times, and got 3 different files.
>>
>> At first, I thought it was a network problem, but now I have reproduced it
>> using only disk accesses.  I create a 1GB file from /dev/urandom, and copy
>> it to several other files, to force all of RAM to be used (I have 2GB).
>> Then, I run md5sum on all of the files and get different results for each
>> one.  The differences in the files are really suggestive of a memory
>> problem, but I have run memtest86+ for a couple of passes and it finds
>> nothing.
>>
>> Output of cmp -lb original.bin copied1.bin:
>>  584294856 227 M-^W 237 M-^_
>>  593924424  64 4     74 <
>>  633975304 224 M-^T 234 M-^\
>>  640479752 202 M-^B 212 M-^J
>>  644645384 163 s    173 {
>>  656228872 322 M-R  332 M-Z
>>  662528520  46 &     56 .
>>  662782472 204 M-^D 214 M-^L
>>  676360712 167 w    177 ^?
>>  782352584 207 M-^G 217 M-^O
>> Bit 4 is always switched from 0 to 1.
>>
>> I don't think that this is a hardware problem, because I have run
>> memtest86+ for a couple of passes, and it found no problems.  It also does
>> not occur on 2.6.20-16, as far as I can tell (I've tried the procedure
>> above several times and got no differences in the files).  I also tried
>> booting with iommu=soft, which did not fix the problem.
>>
>> I think that this is a file writing problem, rather than a reading
>> problem, because I have checked the md5sums of the corrupted files and
>> they are consistent between kernel versions/reboots.
>>
>> I'll attach dmesg, cpuinfo, lspci, etc. in a moment.
>>
>
> --
> Regression: File corruption on amd64/nVidia with 2.6.22-14-generic
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162478
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
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