Re: apt-get update problems

[Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On 7/26/05, Jan Schledermann <spamtrap@schledermann.org> wrote:
> I am getting this sort of messages a lot the last month or two, while
> running apt-get update:
> 
>         Ign ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/main Packages
>         99% [Packages bzip2 0] [Query]
>         bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
>         perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
>         bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>         Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
> 
>         It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
>         You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.
> 
>         You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
>         data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
> 
>         Err ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
>         Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> 
> The next day the update may work well or result in similar error messages.
> 
> Am I the only one having such problems or what?

I've been having some problems with ftp.us.debian.org. I suspect some
mirrors weren't fully updated when ftp-master was shut down, resulting
in some of the systems that ftp.*.debian.org redirects to having a
corrupted or incomplete copy of the archive.