Up2date: There was some sort of I/O error: Not a gzipped file.

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Wed Feb 25 19:22:27 UTC 2004


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Nick Bettison wrote:

> Hi has anyone seen this ? I've tried googling , have found lots of
> things about up2date , but nothing to help me with this... I've checked
> routing and general network stuff as this is the only I/O error I can
> think of and that's fine.
> ...
> Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching
> http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
> #######################################
> Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching
> http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
> ...
> Fetching rpm headers...
> There was some sort of I/O error: Not a gzipped file

Multiple sources work in general, but I suspect you should give them
separate names to avoid them interfering with one another. The error you
got implies that the header wasn't on the site  (probably
www.mirror.ac.uk) that up2date tried to get it from, and you got a 404
page instead.

	Michael Young





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