-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:41:20 +1000 John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 11:03, Jacob S wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 <snip> > [...] > > > > I have been experiencing this same error, sometimes mixed with a > > gzip error complaining that stdin is not in gzip format for about a > > week now. I just changed my sources.list to use ftp instead of http > > and the problem went away. > > > > However, to make the problem more curious, when this problem started > > happening I was using mirrors.kernel.org so I switched to > > ftp.us.debian.org thinking maybe it was a mirror problem. But that > > did not fix it either. Only switching to ftp seemed to fix it. > > > > This would make me suspect that it's a bug with apt-get, except > > that I am using http for debian-multimedia.org and > > wine.sourceforge.net without problems. > > > > Thoughts, anyone? > > > [...] > > I had a similar-sounding problem a couple of months back - I was > getting both the "Couldn't stat..." and the gzip error messages. I > didn't change my sources.list because the mirrors seemed to be > working for everyone else; and I could still upgrade by manually > downloading the Packages files from the mirror sites. > > There seemed to be something wrong with apt-get's interaction with > the Packages files. > > I tried deleting everything in /var/lib/apt/, and even purging and > reinstalling apt (which is scary on a running system). Nothing worked > until the next upgrade of apt, when the problem went away. > > If you search this list for "apt-get update" you will find a > smattering of similar posts, none with a definitive solution. Makes > me think there is a sneaky little apt bug out there. Tonight I had a different variety of it. 19 out of 408 packages failed to download, when I was trying to an apt-get upgrade. I tried to do a wget on the url that apt-get reported as failed, and wget also said there was no such file. However, I then changed the url for wget from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org... to http://ftp.us.debian.org... and 2 out of 3 files tested worked. The 3rd, however, got a 404 error from the debian.org server. So, it is sounding like there are multiple problems here. Are some of the Debian servers overloaded due to the crack a few weeks ago? I thought everything was back up since then, though. Confused... Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0+dckpJ43hY3cTURApZQAJ99YWs/UkSZtLzeBm4FDAkOpsA42wCgkMXm xWDm+0fNrDjwAV+FFSIxWDA= =v4py -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
