> The G4 1500 didn't throw errors, either, BTW. Something with kernel > preemption?
Upon continuing a dist-upgrade I had killed earlier, I get funny errors on the G4 - a package name missing in /var/lib/dpkg/update/, a perl script failing to compile... once that happens, I can even trigger the tar error as you described. So it looks like you need to exercise the buffer cache somewhat before the error triggers. I'll try to force this by exhaustively calculating md5sums over all files now. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]