md5sum check, always false

JoelKlabo · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:28 am Post subject:

I have tried downloading the files from multiple different sources and I have still not been able to pass this test.
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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Have you tried downloading and verifying some other file of similar size which also has a known checksum?

JoelKlabo · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:18 am Post subject:

I just tried to install with the tarbal off the liveCD and that failed as well. What else could this be?
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

Bad install of md5sum?

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didymos · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:20 am Post subject:

JoelKlabo · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject:

when i try to unpack the tarbal, it goes for a while and then says there were errors.
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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

Have you run memtest?
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JoelKlabo · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject:

do i just type memtest to run memtest?
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SLBMEH · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

memtest is a boot option from the livecd

where are you downloading the tarball to? is it to a directory where you have a disk mounted? or are you downloading it to ram? i've gotten that error before because i didn't have enough room to download/extract the tarball because i forgot to mount my partitions.
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JoelKlabo · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:44 am Post subject:

i did mount my partitions, I will try the memtest though, thanks for the help.
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

[quote="JoelKlabo"]i did mount my partitions/quote]

He wasn't asking that. He was asking if you were downloading to the right partition.

If you mount the partition but don't "cd" to it before downloading you'll have the same problem

JoelKlabo · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:55 am Post subject:

yes, i downloaded to my mnt/gentoo/ directory
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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

It really sounds like it could be faulty RAM. Let memtest run at least two cycles and see if there are any errors. If not, we'll continue troubleshooting to find out why you're getting false checksums.
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

i would try to tar -xvjpf stage3. directly without checking tha md5.
see where it stops.
md5sum has failed many times for me.but the stage3 has been extracted successfully.
as everyone has pointed out it can be mem problem in the lower address range.
else try downloading in windows boot.
if your download resumes many times due to net connection the download may not be alright.
it looks like it is not download problem as you cannot pass the cd stage3 itself.

try extract it without checking md5sum.
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