Hi I am getting variable results from md5sum with the -c switch. I suppose a bug in md5sum is unlikely, but maybe you have some ideas for what I can do to find out what is going on. I have included some commands and their output to describe the situation and some other information.
# md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 ; md5sum -c test06.avi.md5 test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match test06.avi: OK test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match test06.avi: OK test06.avi: OK test06.avi: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match # cat test06.avi.md5 002bf7b936439242c8b8c85a3d37a5de test06.avi # uname -a Linux tkill-desktop 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 20:20:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux # date Sat Mar 15 17:16:52 CET 2008 # pwd /mnt/data/privat/video/import/test # df -h /mnt/data/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 163G 151G 3.8G 98% /mnt/data # md5sum --version md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore. # file test06.avi test06.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 576, 25.00 fps, video:, audio: uncompressed PCM (stereo, 32000 Hz) >From dmesg: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 100F PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 usb-storage: device scan complete ... sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
