Re: Spontaneous unclean reboots

Curt wrote:

I would like to check for corrupted files. I was running debsums when
the sparks began to fly this morning.

That shouldn't be a problem, it's supposed to read and not write.


I'm not sure about the procedure;
some packages don't have debsums, some appeared to have incorrect ones.

deb hasn't been as strict as RPM, where you always have checksum data (nowadays even a certificate for the RPM in official releases).


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//Aho
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