inflate returned FFFFFFFD - what does this error exactly mean ?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

linuxppc-embedded-bounces at ozlabs.org wrote on 31/12/2004 09:27:53:

> Hi,
>
> After few days of wondering through debugging (and with great help) I
fixed
> (by inserting watch dog resets into beginning of  while loops in zlib
> functions) my first problem -strange reboot failures during decompression
of
> the kernel image by the bootloader.
> However my luck expired beyond this fix so far ... ;-).
> Now I am getting "controlled" failure (during the same decompression as
> described above):
>
> I_BAD
> return Z_DATA_ERROR
> after zlib_inflate
> inflate returned FFFFFFFD
> exit
>
> what does this error exactly mean ?

Going from include/linux/zlib.h, it is a data error: your compressed stream
has somehow been corrupted?

Regards,

Nigel