[GAP Forum] "Crc mismatch"

[Stephen Linton]

Dear GAP Forum,

This shouldn't happen, and suggests that your download might have been corrupted in some way. For instance, is it possible that you ran out of disk space
while downloading or unpacking the distribution? This can result in files being truncated. 

Could you possibly go into the lib directory of your distribution, do ls -l and mail the output to support at gap-system.org?

Thanks

		Steve Linton

On 4 Oct 2010, at 02:28, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> Dear Forum,
> 
> I just downloaded and built Gap 4.4.12 (Mac OS X, 10.6.4, Dual Quad Xeon).  I tried to get help, and got the following:
> 
> gap> ?QuaternionAlgebra
> Error, Rebuild completion files! (Crc value of
> "./lib/helpdef.gi" does not match.) at
> HELP_BOOKS_INFO.(bnam) := HELP_BOOK_HANDLER.(handler).ReadSix( stream );
> 
> I'm kind of clueless at this point.  Brand new installation, from a newly downloaded tarball.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Justin
> 
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