Hello,

On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:36, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> One of our colleagues is performing network installs of SL.
> He frequently observes that the install fails on downloading always the
> same package (depending on the SL version and arch) with a message
> saying that the package is not found or damaged.
> 
> He has tried different mirrors with the same result. Removing the
> package from the list of packages to install result in the install
> process failing on another package. The protocol is FTP.
> 
> => Anybody has similar experiences ? Solutions ?

we currently mirror the 4.1, 4.9, 5.6, 5.7, and 6.1 repositories from FNAL with rsync, and we automatically verify the signature of all packages. Except for the 64-bit java-sun rpms and some rare human errors, we haven't seen any problems with package integrity.

I'd run a memory test on the system to be installed, and check the network gear. We had a switch once that garbled certain packages downloaded with wget in a few % of all cases, while everything else worked without visible problems...

Cheers,
	Stephan


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Stephan Wiesand
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