[maemo-developers] Data corruption on N770 in OS2007 HE

[From: Joni Valtanen]

What version of the mplayer have you installed? I'd like to test it. 
Mistral version worked fine when I tested last time with hacker.

I agree with Frantisek with possible problem.

- Joni


On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Alex DAMIAN wrote:

> Well, first I was suspecting an off-by-2 (if that exists) somewhere in code,
> since to ^@ is indeed 0 (and I thought of some error in a C program). It was
> more interesting since the error bytes would come in pairs and would replace
> the same letters "l " (ending of the word "install ", but in different
> lines.
>
> I'm not familiar with internals of dpkg but I hoped for an error in dpkg
> routines which handle the status file; now you made my day, I need a better
> tablet :)
>
> Alex
>
> On 11/7/07, Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Alex DAMIAN wrote:
>>> Does anyone else experience these issues ?
>>
>> Ahything random can happen with wi-fi connected 770 due to this
>> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006
>>
>> It doesn't matter which system (2006 or 200HE) you use.
>>
>> BTW this problem can be caused by any other bug too, but since ^@ looks
>> like interpretation of zero, ^@^@ may be really caused by this bug since
>> it overwrites random memory with two zeroes. Congratulations, looks like
>> you have won a lottery :-)
>>
>> Frantisek
>>
>