Files get corrupted :(

[Christopher A. Williams]

I had the exact same problems on both RH9 and Severn. At the time,
Severn proved highly unstable on my system. After fixing what I did (see
below) left things alone. So at present, I'm back on RH9 because I
didn't want to go to the trouble to update NVidia drivers again. I plan
to jump back in with the next beta though.

Along with corrupted files from Samba copying, I was having general
stability problems with VMware 4.0.1 and also couldn't burn a CD to save
my life. No errors, just consistently burning CDs that failed md5sum
tests. Eventually my system started rebooting itself at random. It would
literally just go blank and start counting RAM in a POST again.

What I found that helped was to update the BIOS on my motherboard. I
have an Asus P4S8X. The original BIOS was at 1003a. Upgrading to 1004
seems to have fixed all of the other problems, but I have not tried
copying large files with Samba since flashing the BIOS on my system.
Perhaps I can try that tonight and report back here.

Hope that helps a few other out that still may be having problems Like I
was.

Cheers,

Chris


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 02:29, Martin wrote:
> Hi *!*@*.*,
> 
> I have a very strange problem with my Severn machine:
> A few days ago I moved 9 rar archives (6 Gigs) from my Win XP to my
> Severn machine using Samba. Yesterday I wanted to unpack the archives
> and had to find out that they all were corrupted.
> 
> I found out that files get corrupted when they are written to the
> severn machine. I calculate the md5sum of a file on the XP machine and
> copy it to the Severn machine (I used Samba and FTP with the same
> result) and calculate md5 again which is always different. I managed
> to copy a 10 MB file without any problems but a 20 MB file gets
> corrupted.
> 
> If I copy the corrupted file back to the XP machine and
> calculate the md5sum again I get the same hash as on the linux box
> which means that reading files works fine.
> I copied a 230 MB file from XP to Linux and back and compared the
> original and corrupted file. There were 9 differences in the file
> consisting of 4 to 20 bytes of different data.
> 
> To find out if my file systems were corrupted I booted "linux rescue"
> from the Severn CDs and ran "fsck.ext3 -f /dev/hda1" hda2 and hdc1. No
> problems were reported there. It doesn't matter if I copy the files to
> hda or hdc they get corrupted on both drives and I don't think its a
> heat problem since files get corrupted after the system has been down
> for 10 hours and has been running again for 5 minutes.
> 
> Since there is no newer kernel the 2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.ntpl that
> ships with Severn install discs on rawhide I thought I'll give arjan's
> kernel-2.6.0-0.test3.1.31.athlon.rpm a try. Same problem -Y files get
> corrupted :(
> 
> I'm pretty sure that I didn't have these problems with RH 9.0. Maybe
> I'm going to install it again later today to find out if its working
> under 9.0.
> 
> If anyone has an idea what could cause this please let me know.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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