Knot 1 report...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:31:00PM +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Today I downloaded Knot1, the "alternate" version, for i386.
> 
> Once downloaded I verified the MD5 sum, it was fine, so I burnt it, went okay. 
> The CD boots fine, but when I try to run the integrity check, it fails instantly.
> I always use the same CD writer, same media, same writing speed (x6 !), and never had any problems with any of the numerous test images I have burnt since Hoary. For the sake of it, I also tried with a Rewritable CD, and got exactly thesame result, it fails the CD self test, and does so on exactly the same file, the very first one that gets checked :
> 
> ./dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Release
> 
> So I read that particular file from the CD, and verified the check sum manually, and it checked ok !
> So all in all I feel/reckon the CD's were burnt properly and it's just the self test that has some kind of bug.
> 
> Does anyone experience the same problem on the Alternate i386 Knot 1 CD then ?

I haven't seen any other reports; if it were a bug, and not a hardware or
media problem, it would be likely to affect all users equally.  See if you
can get someone else to confirm the bug, and if so, file it in Launchpad.

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 - mdz