RE: Apt-get *stopped working*: "Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) error"
I managed to resolve this a couple of weeks ago but until now did not
find the time and/or simply forgot to update the list.
The clue was in the log file of my music server software (Squeeze Center
from Slim Devices / Logitech) when the server was trying to update my
last.fm profile:
[08-09-07 15:05:43.1280]
Slim::Plugin::AudioScrobbler::Plugin::_handshakeError (358) Error
handshaking with Last.fm: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";>
<html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"><meta
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-
type"><title>Attention : erreur de configuration DNS</title></
head><body><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight:
bold;"> <big><big><big><big> Attention !!!</big></big></
big></big></span><br></div><br><br>Si
vous arrivez sur cette page c'est que votre configuration DNS est
incorrecte. Merci de modifier les paramètres IP de votre
ordinateur
si possible en <span style="color: red;">DHCP</span> pour obtenir
automatiquement la bonne configuration.<br><br>Pour info les DNS de
Free sont : 212.27.40.240 et 212.27.40.241<br><br><br></body></html>
In short - my ISP had changed the address of their DNS server. Normally
this would not be a problem as I use DHCP (and I had no issues on other
machines as reported) on all of my machines, but my knoppix server goes
through a two stage boot sequence using the pivot_root command. And the
new address of the DNS server was not being used for whatever reason
(but I could still ping domain names like yahoo.com).
Anyway, after editing resolv.conf apt-get worked as before.
Chris
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Christopher Mc Carthy
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CertEx
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-----Original Message-----
From: Klaus Knopper [mailto:debian-knoppix@knopper.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 10:11 PM
To: Christopher Mc Carthy
Cc: debian-knoppix@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Apt-get *stopped working*: "Sub-process gzip returned an
error code (1) error"
Hi,
Looks like there is a broken file inside a (tranparent?) proxy in
between. Another possiobility is tht your /var filesystem is full, in
which case
apt-get clean
could help.
-Klaus
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Christopher Mc Carthy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For some reason apt-get just seemed to stop working on my hard disk
install of knoppix. I used apt-get to update a package a few weeks
back, but when I try to do anything now I get errors similar to the
following:
>
> root@roro:/etc/apt# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Packages [795B]
> 99% [1 Packages gzip 0] [Connecting to debian.slimdevices.com
(213.228.63.58)]
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Packages
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Get:2 http://debian.slimdevices.com stable/main Release [795B]
> Fetched 1590B in 1s (1351B/s)
> Failed to fetch
http://debian.slimdevices.com/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://debian.slimdevices.com
stable/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.slimdevices.com_dists_stable_main_binary-i386
_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
>
> Now the repo (http://debian.slimdevices.com) is fine, I've downloaded
from there to other machines (via apt-get) this afternoon. And same
thing with other sources. The first few lines seem to indicate that the
download went fine, but then there was a gzip error. First time I've
seen something like this. An afternoon of looking on the web has not
brought a solution (i.e. tried apt-get clean, changing http to ftp etc).
>
> Any suggestions as to what I can try now?
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