Re: VLC checksum mis-match

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:02:06AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > Report it to HEAnet if you want it to be resolved. I've forwarded the 
> > problem and got no answer. Maybe they respond if they get more reports.
> 
> You CC'd us on a mail, that isn't a report. If you want us to resolve
> anything quickly, send a simple short mail telling us what the problem
> is. A useful example would be something like:
> 
> 	The checksum on the file at $URL should be $checksum, however
> 	it is currently corrupted.
>
> That's something we can fix in minutes. If your report contains a lot of
> irrelevant quotes and stuff from some other thread, it's likely to take
> a lot longer. We host millions of files, including many duplicates.

Well, given that vast amount of mails I got in previous occasions. It's 
not very practical to handle each occurance on a case by case basis. I'm 
not reporting (sorry CCing) a corruption case to fix it. There might be 
more files that have been corrupted by the same problem that may not have 
been reported to me.

I'm mostly forwarding to let you guys know there is (another) corruption 
problem so that the cause can be fixed.

Forwarding individual cases is not a complete solution anyway and I really 
don't have the time for doing this. (And I assume you guys don't either)


> Neither of your mails has even told us how we would determine that the
> file is not currupt after we re-sync it.

The RPM file has a checksum in the header. But again I'm not as 
much interested to fix the symptoms, but to find the cause.

And if you need more information, I'm available to help. Just reply.

 
> > I've asked to get commandline access to fix problems myself, but didn't 
> > get response either. So I have no more rights or control over the problem 
> > as you.
> 
> Mathias has access, and has not authorised anyone else to have access.

Well, that's why I asked HEAnet to have the same access. Otherwise I have 
to depend on Matthias to fix it. We have wasted lots of time before and 
people get really frustrated because, you know, some programs bail out 
when a single package is corrupted and their system is deprived from 
updates.

Do we know what is causing this now ? rsync, apache, filesystem, nfs ?

 
> > The only thing I can do is move to another mirror, but since I do not have 
> > any statistics about how much traffic is required (yes, I requested that 
> > as well) it would be a jump of faith.
> 
> Based on a brief look at the logs, I think the freshrmp's downloads
> generally peak at about 110 Mbit/sec.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]