Did you say this was on a VM? We've had corrupted files with 'cp' from one file system to another on a VM box if it decided to do a vmotion while the copy was in progress.
Just remember -- "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."(Paul Ehrlich) -----Original Message----- From: Gnupg-users [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Ingo Klöcker Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 11:52 AM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: BAD signatures for GnuPG Stable On Thursday 28 January 2016 09:31:31 Aaron Tovo wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > Today I re-downloaded the .bz2 and .sig. And the verification worked > (see output below). I did file diffs between the new and the previous > downloads with 'diff' and they are identical. So I tried verify on the > previous download and it worked this time. Very confusing. I had a similarly confusing incident with some FLAC files intermittently being logged as corrupted by vlc. It turned out that I had bad RAM that lead to subtle differences in the files if they happened to be put onto the bad RAM by the kernel's file cache. Long story short, I suggest that you check your RAM. Regards, Ingo -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
