Hi!

On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 19:54:00 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.13
> Severity: wishlist

> Whenever I encounter e.g.,
> 
> Unpacking libgtk-3-common (3.14.0-1) over (3.13.9-2) ...
> dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: compressed 
> data is corrupt
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2
> dpkg: error processing archive 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-common_3.14.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
> 
> doing aptitude install clears it. Maybe there's a race condition that
> messed up the first run. Anyway, I don't need to download the package
> again.

If you don't need to download it again, then that seems like it got
corrupted while being loaded to memory, my guess is that as with your
previous bug report, there's something very wrong with your hardware,
you might want to use something like memtest86, memtest86+ or
memtester, to check if your RAM is fine, but that might not discard
problems with the motherboard or other components, etc…

> So maybe print a hint "Maybe try again"?

These kind of errors are in the majority of cases due to corrupted
files, asking the user to try again, might be even more confusing, as
they might keep trying w/o any real hope of the issue fixing itself
magically. So I think I'd rather not send them into some wild goose
chase.

Due to all the above I'm tempted to close this bug report right away.

Thanks,
Guillem


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