Re: sha512sum-error at debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-gnome.iso
Thanks Thomas!
On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 09:04:06AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>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
>
>
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