Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:55:53 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Corrupt program files |
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On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, William M. Perkins wrote:
> I just had something unusual happen. Although I do not really know > when it happened. The gzip binary in /bin, and its hard linked > counterparts /bin/gunzip and /bin/zcat, are corrupt! This is some- > thing I do not expect to happen and it has never happened before as > far as I know. I am running the 2.0.20 kernel on a 486/DX2 and no
Bizarrely, precisely the same thing happened to me last week. I had just upgraded to 2.0.20 (from 2.0.4) and was doing a fresh install on one machine off CD-ROM. When it came to reboot with the newly-installed system, gzip was corrupt in some way (though the file length was right). I never worked out how it happened. I reinstalled again and the problem didn't recur, though it was a bit worrying.
It seems a bit improbable that it's a kernel thing though. At the time I put it down to cosmic rays or something, because I didn't have time to chase it properly.
phil
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