Re: apt-get problems

[pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:32:23 Pollywog wrote:
> I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list but they no longer seem
> to work and I don't know why.
> I can access these via the web just not with apt.
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian unstable contrib main non-free

Okay here is the strange part:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

is on both my laptop and desktop.  The laptop updates normally but the
desktop complains


Err ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/contrib Release                          
                                                          
  Data transfer failed, server said 'Data connection error: Input/output
error  '
Get:9 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages [73.3kB]             
                                                          
Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release                   
                                                          
Get:11 ftp://nonus.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release                 
                                                          
Ign ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Release                      
                                                          
Ign ftp://nonus.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release                    
                                                          
Hit ftp://nonus.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Sources                 
                                                          
94% [2 unstable/main gzip 4259840] [9 unstable/non-free 0/73.3kB 0%]       
                                                127kB/s 0s
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
Err ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages                            
                                                          
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

Anyone have an idea what this problem is?

thanks


--
Andrew