On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:24:59AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Pascal Hakim <pasc@redellipse.net> writes: > > ftp.us.debian.org points to a few different machines, so it's quite > > possible for different people to get different results. > > > > If there's a mirror behind there that is missing some files, it might > > be worth telling the mirror team about it. > > > > 12:01 ~% host ftp.us.debian.org > > ftp.us.debian.org has address 35.9.37.225 > > ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.101.240.212 > > ftp.us.debian.org has address 204.152.191.7 > > ftp.us.debian.org has address 216.37.55.114 > > It fails quite consistently for me... and as far as I can tell, the > error indicates something's wrong with the downloaded file (or my > machine), not that it failed to find it on the server -- the "no such > file" error it gets later seems to because the initial problem with the > file's contents caused the download to delete the destination file. > > Additionally, when using aptitude, I get "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format" > errors, and noting that it seem to be downloading .bz2 files, it seems > like somethign is expecting gzip format, but the files on the server are > bzip2 files...? > > Thanks, > Hi Miles, have you tried using something like(eg. gnome): apt-get --print-uris -y install gnome|grep deb|cut -d\' -f2|while read line; do wget $line; done to see if you can download the debs and intall them manually to see if its apt-get that has the issue rather than dpkg. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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