Bug#422111: download corruption

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:48:49PM +0200, kiu wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64
> Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i have a very unusual, but reproducable bug:
> 
> Downloading
> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1_amd64.deb
> should have md5 of 54b74bc3ba1204317c68bdf7a0d017e1, but my downloads gets
> corrupted.
> 
> It happens only if the (slow 50kb/s instead of 5Mb/s) 128.101.240.212 mirror is
> used - the other mirrors are fine(!):
> $ wget --header "Host: security.debian.org"
> http://128.101.240.212/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1_amd64.deb
> $ md5sum linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1_amd64.deb
> eef84cc95c7c63fb6b90a90e839f3ccb 
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1_amd64.deb
> 
> My other (non amd64) machines have no problem with this slow mirror, but the hw
> is not comparable.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz