> The first line varies according to the Botan failure, of course. I'm
> not wholly satisfied with the wording of the advice - improvements
> welcome.
Every time I can recall seeing this, it turned out to be some sort of
storage hardware failure -- hard drives going south, or in one
memorable occasion (i.e., this happened to the venge.net server), a
RAID card that liked to flip bits on one of its channels.
We
definitely want to at least raise this possibility in the user's
mind...
Perhaps:
This is most often caused by a failing hard drive, bad memory, or
filesystem corruption; it may also be caused by corruption during
network data transfer, or a bug in monotone. We recommend checking
for hardware failure, or contacting address@hidden for
further assistance.