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From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: extract can't make up it's mind
Date: 19 Sep 1992 00:58:38 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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well, here i go with an unending saga.  i'm in the midst of my fourth
install (by hand) with a conners cp3204 (the other four worked fine,
until an inevitable filesystem spuge).  Everytime i install i come
up with a (seemingly) completely differ set of problems, although they
always seem related to the hard drive.

anyway this time, i get to the point that i start cpio'ing the bin01 set,
i get a "cpio out of phase--get help" message, (it's a cute meesage,
except when the frustration level starts rising 8-), so i think, bummer.
i figure some file on one of my trusty floppies must of got zonked,
anyway i do a:

	# cat bin01.?? > bin01.Z ; uncompress bin01.Z

just for the fun of it, and it worked!  well i figure if a file on a 
floppy is no good, then the compress should surely fail, but it didn't.
i then cpio -itv < bin01, and get the out of phase message, at different
points, usaully around usr/tar or usr/uucp.  does anyone have a clue
as to why this may be happening??? 

to determin which file is bad i extracted bin/ln, created a link from
/tmp -> /usr/tmp so i could run extract.  But everytime i run extract
it gives me a completely different list of corrupted files, i'll run
the command 3 and 4 times in a row and get completely different lists
everytime.  Does anyone have an idea about this???


My first suspicion is an operator error 8-/.  but more and more i am 
becoming suspicious of my hard drive, although this is probably paranioa.

Any comments and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

- rusty

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eddy@usc.edu