Hi, just a coupla days ago i reinstalled the HURD from the latest .debs. However i've noticed a few problems, aside from the commonly mentioned (and to my knowlege still unfixed) bug concerning not cleanly unmounted partitions at reboot. Especially when i try to install a new package or compile something, I get strange errors that I can only attribute to corrupt data, either in memory or on disk. After I install a couple new packages (or maybe only one) all subsequent installation attepts yeild crc errors from gzip. And at the same time ld starts spuing errors when i try to compile somthing. Sometimes a reboot fixes the problem and sometimes not.
I tried to compare the md5sums of the same .deb package when it was installing successfully and when it wasn't. They were different, so the problem isn't in gzip. I thought that somehow pipes were causing the problem (I have also observed that random characters were changed when written to disk, for example a ' ' being changed to ^K, etc.) but after restarting the pflocal translator several times, nothing happend. After rebooting in linux and verifying the integrity of the same .deb pacakge, it seemed fine so the problem is not in the file it self. I've seen a couple of posts here about file system corruption due to the ext2fs server. Because of the above symptoms this seems to be a very likely cause. If it possible for me to downgrade my hurd (or another) package to avoid these errors, if so to which version? Thanks. Igor
