No, wasn't a user error..
Found the issue.. the CSA (security agent) was doing something weird to the
vbox traffic. Disabled that and redid the process.. worked this time.

Thanks,
Sridhar



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Doug Chang <[email protected]>wrote:

> has to be user error. paste your actual commands. you arent doing
> something like running the wrong repo command like the one for cent os or
> something like that?
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Sridhar Iyer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> tried 3-4 different repos, all hadthe same issue.
>> - Sridhar
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Doug Chang <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> try a different url.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sridhar Iyer 
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was redoing my setup on Virtualbox 4.1.8 on Win7(64 bit) with Lucid
>>>> 64bit as the guest OS. However after adding the gpg key and doing apt-get
>>>> update, I see the following error:
>>>>
>>>> Get:3 http://mirror.nyi.net bigtop/contrib Packages [288B]
>>>>> 64% [3 Packages bzip2 0B]bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
>>>>> Err http://mirror.nyi.net bigtop/contrib Packages
>>>>>   Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)
>>>>> Ign http://mirror.nyi.net bigtop/contrib Sources
>>>>> Ign http://mirror.nyi.net bigtop/contrib Sources
>>>>> Err http://mirror.nyi.net bigtop/contrib Sources
>>>>>   0  Ok
>>>>> Fetched 775B in 0s (1,031B/s)
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://mirror.nyi.net/apache/incubator/bigtop/stable/repos/ubuntu/dists/bigtop/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
>>>>>  Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)
>>>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>>>> http://mirror.nyi.net/apache/incubator/bigtop/stable/repos/ubuntu/dists/bigtop/contrib/source/Sources.gz
>>>>>  0  Ok
>>>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
>>>>> ones used instead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is trying to download the .bz2 file and that location only has
>>>> Packages.bz2. Am I missing something here?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sridhar
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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