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.
<br><br>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 :)<br><br>Alex<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frantisek Dufka</b> <<a href="mailto:dufkaf@seznam.cz">dufkaf@seznam.cz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Alex DAMIAN wrote:<br>> Does anyone else experience these issues ?<br><br>Ahything random can happen with wi-fi connected 770 due to this<br><a href="https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006">https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2006
</a><br><br>It doesn't matter which system (2006 or 200HE) you use.<br><br>BTW this problem can be caused by any other bug too, but since ^@ looks<br>like interpretation of zero, ^@^@ may be really caused by this bug since
<br>it overwrites random memory with two zeroes. Congratulations, looks like<br>you have won a lottery :-)<br><br>Frantisek<br></blockquote></div><br>