Re: sha512sum-error at debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

just for the records i report what Gerd Mühlenbruch and i found out
off list:

The reason for the bad dowload was that two wget processes were writing
to the same file.

Gerd had started the first wget by letting nautilus executing it. For
this it created a terminal window with a running wget, which Gerd soon
after closed by means of the desktop.
Then he wanted to continue downloading by starting wget in terminal
window.

Closing the nautilus-made terminal would normally shut down the program
that is running in it. Not so with wget, where the man page says:

  Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background,
  while the user is not logged on.  This allows you to start a retrieval
  and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work.

We did not explore what exactly causes the oversize of the download result.
The situation of two simultanously working wgets on the same file is ill
enough to serve as explanation.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas