What am I missing here? (sha256sum)

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 17:51:20 UTC 2010



On 09/21/2010 08:14 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I just downloaded the f14 RC3 iso and the checksum file from
> the same directory:
>
> zooty>  ls -l
> total 3443676
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tom users        740 Sep 21 00:59 Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-CHECKSUM
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tom users 3517335568 Sep 21 11:00 Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tom users    5526034 Sep 21 11:00 temp.get
>
> When I check the checksum, I get this:
>
> zooty>  sha256sum -c Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-CHECKSUM
> Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso: FAILED
>
> When I calculate the checksum, I get this:
>
> zooty>  sha256sum Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
> 24d764247508f18c19fdceb2d9f2bf714e3615a722f20c64a0ed365f3b7af885  Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
>
> When I grep the matching file out of the checksum file I get:
>
> zooty>  fgrep DVD.iso Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-CHECKSUM
> 24d764247508f18c19fdceb2d9f2bf714e3615a722f20c64a0ed365f3b7af885 *Fedora-14-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso
>
> Why on earth does it tell me the checksum failed?
In my case:
$ sha256sum -c Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso CHECKSUM
sha256sum: Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso: no properly formatted SHA256 checksum 
lines found
Fedora-13-i386-DVD.iso: OK




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