[Lula] md5sum weirdness on firefox

Dan Kegel dank06 at kegel.com
Mon Mar 5 23:48:11 EST 2007


On 3/5/07, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
> >I think at this point I would start suspecting your network hardware.
>
> The only way I see that I could blame my network hardware would be if
> the hardware were consistently performing some sort of transformation
> on some sequence of bits that happens to exist in firefox-1.5.0.9-3,
> and then ***reversing that transformation when the data leaves my
> computer***.

Right, or maybe you were smoking crack at some point during the whole
exercize.

Here's what I would suggest: write a shell script that automates
the check, using wget and md5sum (and what the heck, sha1sum).
Run it again on all your computers just to be sure.
If the problem persists, start doing fun stuff like building
an exact duplicate of the offending computer and
see if that also has the problem. If not, then start swapping parts...
- Dan



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