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From: Andre Pang <ozone@algorithm.com.au>
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:14:01PM -0700, Sam Thompson wrote:

> Tar/gzip will complain about crc errors in files: for example
> in a certain 40 mb file I can decompress fine on other
> computers. If I try to uncompress the same file immediately,
> it will fail at a different point, seemingly at random.
> Sometimes it works fine. Random debian packages I apt-get have
> the same problem. Sometimes they won't unpack properly,
> sometimes they will.

you also possibly have a ram problem.  check out memtest86 at
freshmeat.net and try that.  anything can happen to a computer
if power dies unexpectedly.


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