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- FYI #042090mm
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- Question:
- Has anyone run across "Packed file is corrupt" errors while
- trying to run LOGOUT, VOLINFO, CHKVOL or FLAG? Server is a
- Compaq 386/33 with a 650Mb hard disk, running SFT NetWare 2.15a,
- with PS/2 Model 70 workstations, 16Mb IBM token ring. All
- FCONSOLE statistics look OK. All menu utilities work. Using a
- "fresh" copy of LOGOUT from the original install disks yields the
- same error message.
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- Answer:
- I have seen this on a network before. The user was running SMC
- Arcnet and was getting this error on several other utilities
- also. After alot of time spent troubleshooting it looked like
- the packets were getting corrupted somehow (it had to have been
- in the data area instead of the header). The user got a new
- driver from SMC and the problem went away.
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- Since then I have seen this happen some more with other network
- topologies. I imagine that other network hardware problems could
- cause this kind of problem also.
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