Re: apt update broken for days?
Have you tried a different mirror? It's been working perfectly on
my system, even though I do get non-us from non-us.debian.org.
It does, though, sound like there's something wrong with your system.
Maybe a corrupt .deb file somewhere?
On 18 Jan 2002 09:22:49 -0500 "Paul Smith"<pausmith@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to do an apt-get update successfully for three or
> four days now; does anyone know what's going on?
>
> I get these failures every time I try:
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Sources
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages
> Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
> Fetched 5229kB in 2m41s (32.4kB/s)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/source/Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/non-free/source/Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/source/Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/source/Sources Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> ...
>
> A bunch of other updates _do_ work, but not these. At this point I'm
> wondering if something is wrong on my system, because it seems like
> these errors would have certainly been found and fixed by now...?
>
> Help!
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