Package: apt Version: 0.3.4 It seems that if I use the line
deb ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian potato main contrib non-free to use the mirror at ftp.cdrom.com, then fetches from said site fail with Protocol corruption messages all the time. The problem is somewhat intermittent, but happens well over half the time. Sometimes it comes at the beginning of the download of a file, sometimes at that end. Perhaps you could take a look at this server and see what about it makes apt-get's ftp client choke on a site that works fine with other ftp clients? ROOT: WyrmWeyr:/home/njs# apt-get update Hit http://www.debian.org unstable/main Packages Ign http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release Err http://master.debian.org xfree86-3331/ Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://master.debian.org xfree86-3331/ Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages Ign http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release Hit ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Release [95b] Err ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Release Protocol corruption Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/contrib Packages Get:3 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/contrib Release Get:4 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/non-free Packages <snip> ROOT: WyrmWeyr:/home/njs# apt-get -y upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 60.5kb of archives. After unpacking 1024b will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main alien 6.36 [60.5kb] Err ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main alien 6.36 Protocol corruption Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/alien_6.36.deb Protocol corruption E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? ROOT: WyrmWeyr:/home/njs# In this case, it actually downloaded most of alien before failing. This appears to be common, for it to get part way through a file, then die. Running apt-get again with the same command line seems to pick up where the failed one left off, but there's no guarentee that the second attempt won't fail as well. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux WyrmWeyr 2.2.4 #17 Wed Mar 24 13:44:58 PST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.61-1 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
