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Dave Korn wrote:

[snip]
>> It's disturbing that the two "mirrors.kernel.org" servers aren't in sync.
>> I suspect I'm pulling a bogus image from the alternate kern.org mirror. I
>> was getting inconsistent results -- thought it might have been the new
>> setup.exe accessing a different data file.  Very confusing. Sigh.
>=20
> I suspect that you're pulling /no/ image at all from the mirror - it may =
well
> be that the 404 status gets lost and all setup.exe notices is that there =
are
> zero bytes ("too short") in the result it ends up with.
>=20
> Someone could ping the hostmaster(s) I suppose, but I'm inclined to just
> shrug and say "Well, there are plenty of much better mirrors out there th=
an
> kernel.org".

Reported and, in a while, hopefully corrected:

> Sorry about that.  One of our machines got slightly hung a bit ago and so=
me
> of our syncing processes (since each of the machine syncs independently f=
rom
> upstream) hung.  I've kicked the processes and things should be better in=
 an
> hour or so once things catch up.
>=20
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley Kernel.org Admin

--=20
Ren=C3=A9 Berber


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