Re: Bad RPMs at ftp.redhat.com

[Daniel Prantl <dprantl black clarku edu>]

		This is about my earlier post about corrupted RPMs at ftp.redhat.com.  I
agree that I was very angry when I posted my earlier mail, and I have no
explanation as to why the files on redhat are corrupted, and not on the
other mirrors.  Please, give me the benefit of the doubt until you read
this whole message.  I am not the kind of person that just splurges
complaints without reasoning.  Here are the facts:
	1) I downloaded the dir tree from ftp.redhat.com.
	2) I tried to install, but I got a signal 11 error when the installer was
scanning for
       packages.
	3) If I took 6 RPMs out of the RPMS directory, the installer went to the
next step, without
       displaying this error.
	4) I tried re-downloading these RPMs several times from ftp.redhat.com,
but the results
       were the same every time, so to the people telling me it is because
of my 28.8
       connection, this cannot be true.
	5) I tried to download these 6 RPMs from ftp.redhat.com from another
computer with a
       direct ethernet connection (that was around 20+ kbytes/sec).  Same
problem.
	6) I then tried to download these same 6 RPMs from ftp.engr.uark.edu, and
behold, the
       installer scanned all the packages without the signal 11 error.
Please, I am trying very hard to reason logically about this. I believe
that I have exhausted all the possibilities, and the only conclusion I can
come up with is that some of the RPMs at ftp.redhat.com are corrupted, and
those same RPMs are not corrupted at ftp.engr.uark.edu.  I am not the only
one who has had this problem.  In fact, I found out about this from a post
on a newsgroup (if you want, you can refer to the thread in
comp.os.linux.setup at http://www.dejanews.com and enter the search string
"signal 11 Redhat 5.0" and it should be the 20th message).