Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: apt-file
I installed apt-file yesterday, and would have expected it to work by
today (the computer has been running for all this time). However, it
doesn't, mostly.
vnix$ time apt-file search nosuchfile
gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-
updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format
gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-
updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format
gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-
updates_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format
gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-
backports_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format
gzip: /var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-
proposed_Contents-i386.gz: not in gzip format
real 0m21.708s
user 0m19.381s
sys 0m0.696s
vnix$ uptime
21:43:01 up 2 days, 19:24, 5 users, load average: 1.23, 0.74, 0.38
In other words, the system is not under extremely heavy load or
anything, and the operation takes forever. Running "sudo apt-file
update" didn't clear this up, either.
However, this does appear to be just a transient problem:
vnix$ ls -l /var/cache/apt/apt-file
total 13608
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04
fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-backports_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13888467 2007-10-17 06:11
fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04
fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6170 2006-04-07 16:04
fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz
vnix$ file /var/cache/apt/apt-file/*
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-backports_Contents-i386.gz:
HTML document text
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_Contents-i386.gz:
gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz:
HTML document text
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_Contents-i386.gz:
HTML document text
vnix$ head
/var/cache/apt/apt-file/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-proposed_Contents-i386.gz
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<title> 404 File was not found in NIC </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<center>
<!-- <img src="http://www.funet.fi/funet/ftp/hamster-transparent-logo.gif";>-->
It would be nice, though, if apt-file could check that the downloaded
files are in the expected format before committing them.
** Affects: apt-file (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Please check integrity of downloaded files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176753
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