Repairing truncated file

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Mon Jun 3 20:40:58 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:14:15PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> And what is the ;51a94e8f on the end of the file ?

This is one of temporary suffixes used to create temporary targets when
unpacking an update rpm.  If you are seeing something of that sort that
means that something got screwy and a rename to a "final" form did not
happen.  I have seen something of that sort on occasions when a package
update tried to replace directly a file with a symlink or vice-versa (or
another mixup of that sort).  What is really messed up in your case it
is not really possible to tell from what you are saying but something
definitely is.

   Michal


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