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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <19emjeINNhoq@aludra.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu 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 -- eddy@usc.edu