Bug#206187: apt-get update fails to get index package list and therefore does nothing
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Sasha Volkoff wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.4 (debian woody 3.0r1)
> Session:
> mafalda:~# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages [146kB]
> Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release [110B]
> Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Fetched 147kB in 6s (21.5kB/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
> Waited, for gzip but it wasn't there
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org
> stable/updates/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_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.
Does gunzip exist, and runs correctly? How about running this command:
strace -ff -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update
then tarring up all of /tmp/apt-get.log.*, gzipping it, and placing it online
somewhere?
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