[OSM-talk] Planet-latest.osm.bz2 corrupt?

[Lambertus]

Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:32 +0100, Lambertus wrote:
>> I ran memtester and cpuburn all night and nothing has popped-up this 
>> morning. Is it still likely to be my powersuppy?
> 
> No, I was using this as an example, there are numerous other
> possibilities. If the md5sum of your file is wrong then it might have
> been corrupted during the transfer from the OSM server.
> 
> In my case the md5sum of the files were correct, it was only the bzip2
> process which was occasionally failing. This pointed at a problem inside
> my machine.
> 
Well I tried an old PIII which I had lying around somewhere and it has 
downloaded the bz2 file without problems, so it definitely is my machine 
  that causes this. I'm guessing the HDD is about to give up. Thanks for 
all the help so far!