Re: "Sorry, the management."

[Nick Lamb <njl98r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> Excel XP can not open it either complaining that it is corrupt.  It
> offered to attempt to extract things (a nice idea) then tells me
> that damage was so extensive that repair wasn't possible.
>
> In summary that file is toast.  Sorry.

The start of the file looks OK, but after a while it turns into a symbol
list, perhaps part of the Linux kernel symbol table or similar, e.g.

c0188a80 put_cmsg
c0185b3c sock_kmalloc
c0185b78 sock_kfree_s
c018ce80 neigh_table_init
c018cf74 neigh_table_clear

It is extremely unlikely that a fault in Gnumeric could cause this on its
own, there is no reason why the contents of that symbol table would be
in Gnumeric's userspace memory in order to wind up in a file. More likely
there is file corruption (an unscheduled power failure, an OS crash?) or
even disk corruption (RAM problems, hard disk problems).

I agree with Jody's prognosis though - this file is definitely toast.

Nick.