On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:37:12PM +0100, Simon Rees wrote: > > Simon Rees wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude > > > unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: > > > tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > > > returned: > > > ------------- > > > bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. > > > Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) > > On Monday 27 June 2005 16:28, Jan de Haan wrote: > > > Hi Simon, > > > > is bunzip2 installed? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Jan. > > Hi Jan > > Yes (v1.0.2). > I have tried using b(un)zip2 directly on the file as well as within tar with > the same results. >
That sounds quite strange. However, I don't have that error at all. I have kernel-source-2.6.8 version 2.6.8-16 installed. It could be possible that the file was placed across a bad sector on your harddrive. Try running a self test (use the smartmontools package) on your disk. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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