Getting error running up2date: Not a gzipped file
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Jan 14 01:16:40 UTC 2004
Am Mi, den 14.01.2004 schrieb Chuck Sterling um 01:50:
> Yesterday evening I started getting an error running up2date. It has
> been running okay, if a lot slow since I had not used a mirror. A few
> days ago I reconfigured /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to use a mirror and
> up2date was working pretty well considering it's over a dialup
> connection. That afternoon I did the same thing at $WORK with good
> results. I later tried to do an update at home and I consistently get
> the error below with the default host used below or with either of two
> mirrors I tried.
>
> FWIW, the up2date GUI just quits without an error message.
>
> Have I broken something (probably) or is there a problem on the servers?
> If I've broken it does anybody have an idea where I start looking for a
> fix? I can reinstall from scratch since this is a work in progress but
> I'd like to know what's causing the problem...
>
> Today I again tried at $WORK and at home. No change.
>
> Chuck Sterling
>
>
> [chuck at localhost chuck]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at localhost root]# up2date --nox -u -v
>
> Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching package list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching
> http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> There was some sort of I/O error: Not a gzipped file
> [root at localhost root]#
You do not any mirror in this example but the redhat server. Fix you
source list and the error will go away, I am sure.
Alexander
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