Re: apt update broken for days?

[crispin@iinet.net.au]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:46:18AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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)
> >         ...

Maybe its the FBI snaffling traffic to insert magic lantern on your system. And doing a bad job of it. 

When is apt going to support https???

Crispin