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roberts

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Posted: April 14 2005,05:58

I only check the checksum on newly downloaded files and not local files.
I do not require the md5 files to remaiin with the actual extension files, otherwise you would have to store the md5s with the extensions in the root dir and optional. I did not want to impact the system like that. So therefore only while downloading is the check done. This prevents bad downloads and also the case when the download is prematurely stopped by the user or an out of memory conditions arises.

By ignoring the checksum then manually forcing the load of the local file may result in unpredictable results.

struppi

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Posted: April 14 2005,07:57

Quote (roberts @ April 13 2005,17:37)

There have been no additions or deletions of the key maps.
There remains three keyboard choices for German keyboard.

hm where is my mistake? i booted dsl with "lang=de". only äöüß don't work, the rest of the german keyboard-layout is ok.

roberts

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Posted: April 14 2005,16:19

Try booting dsl with the xsetup option to select keyboard, then try de-latin1
Or use the the DSL panel and select keyboard to change keyboard, you must exit the window manager and re-enter to see the effects.

The option that you are using lang=de actually is handled inside knoppix-autoconfig which has not be changed. But then again, you don't state which version you had prior, like say 0.7.x. That was the last time the knoppix-autoconfig was upgraded when we went to the newer kernel, modules and matching knoppix-autoconfig.

kaplah

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Posted: April 14 2005,19:08

I haven't been able to get any extensions to work - I get "Download checksum error" on every one... including themes.

I manually checked the md5sum and it *IS* wrong.....
The downloads seem to go along just fine, though......

roberts

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Posted: April 14 2005,23:50

Mystery solved. I just got finished working with Ke4nt to solve this problem.
First there is no problem on a pristine boot for DSL.

What we discovered is that when gnu-utils.dsl is loaded the failure begins.
This is why I never saw the problem. Sorry, I only use UCI type extensions.

This also explains why some users experience the problem for EVERY extension, as they probably have gnu-utils is their root and autoloading.

It also explains why some users can load some extensions and they no more will load without checksome errors.

The md5sum in the base iso is significantly different that gnu md5sum.
Therefore wrong checksums were being produced once gnu-utils comes into play.

Now for several work-arounds:

1. If you experience this failure, then open an xterm and cd to the /tmp or where ever you downloaded the extension.
Manually issue the checksum command like this:

md5sum -c extension_name.dsl.md5.txt

If it returns an OK then manually load it with mydsl-load extension_name.dsl

2. If you have a hard drive install or have a writeable /usr/bin then you can patch the code.
Edit /usr/bin/mydsl-wget and delete the -s option of the md5sum line of the script.

3. Wait for 1.0.1. I will check with John if OK to issue 1.0.1 ASAP. I already have three fixes in 1.0.1

Special thanks to Ke4nt, and also to Joel, and Chris in communicating with me to solve this.

Robert

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