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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:47:01 +0100
From:      Robert Sevat <robert@indylix.nl>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>,  freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange package checksum report
Message-ID:  <54C2C155.6060607@indylix.nl>
In-Reply-To: <21698.32224.747971.146491@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
References:  <21698.32224.747971.146491@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>

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Maybe hardware going bad?

If you're using ZFS, it's probably not the hard disk since ZFS would
correct it before pkg can notice it. (Unless you have no redundancy, but
then you'd still see checksum errors in zpool status)

Maybe bad memory that causes corruption?

Kind Regards,
Robert Sevat

On 01/23/2015 05:59 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> On some of my machines, I've been noticing the following in the
> nightly security mail:
>=20
> Checking for packages with mismatched checksums:
> p5-XML-SAX-0.99_2: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails=
=2Eini
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/UserDict.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/_weakrefset.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/abc.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/codecs.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/copy_reg.pyc
> python27-2.7.9: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/encodings/__init__.pyc
> [ a bunch of other .pyc files elided ]
>=20
> Does anyone know what causes this?  Force-reinstalling the package
> fixes it, but only temporarily -- by the time the next security mail
> comes, it's back in this state.
>=20
> -GAWollman



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