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Re: Problem [1.5] gdbm update failure


Charles Wilson wrote:
> Fergus wrote:
>> Setup stalled:
>>
>> Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
>> Thread: DialogProc
>> Type: 9Exception
>> Message: Package validation failure for
>> release/gdbm/gdbm-1.8.3-9-src.tar.bz2
>> AppErrNo: 1
>>
>> Incidentally gdbm-1.8.3-20 installed perfectly well into [1.7].
> 
> Try a different mirror. I just checked the md5sum of my original copy
> against the one on sourceware and the recorded md5sum value in
> setup.ini, and they all match.

  LOL, we should probably catch the exception and display a nicer error
message though.  (In fact I thought we did; maybe something's broke.)  But
yeh, this is probably just a one-off bad download.

  Do you still have the corrupt file?  Did it get truncated, is it completely
garbled, or something else?

    cheers,
      DaveK




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