Re: error with apt-get update

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 13:49, Vijaya S wrote:
> Hi all,
> When i try to do apt-get update i get the following error:-
> 99% [1 Packages gzip 9994240]
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
> 
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> Err http://xyz.com unstable/main Packages
>   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
> Fetched 3183kB in 2s (1304kB/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://xyz.com/debian/dists/unstable/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://xyz.com unstable/main
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/xyz.com_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://xyz.com unstable/main
> Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/xyz.com_debian_dists_unstable_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.
> 
> How do i fix it?
> 
> Regards,
> Vijaya
> 

Hi,

	are you perhaps getting your packages through an apt-proxy?
It's a know bug there and you can overcome it simply by running
'apt-get update' again.

Sincerely,

Jan.