Up2date - IOError: Not a gzipped file

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 18 20:35:37 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:40:46PM -0600, Craig Goodyear wrote:
.....

> Does anyone have a potential solution or a starting place for resolution?  
> I have appended the output generated when trying to run up2date.  Please 
> help, I'm stuck.
> 
> Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
> 
> Fetching 
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/1/i386/os//headers/header.info...
....
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 110, in _read_gzip_header
>    raise IOError, 'Not a gzipped file'
> IOError: Not a gzipped file

For now switch mirror site.
I saw the same error and after switching to a different mirror the problem went away.

My guess is that this specific mirror has a problem.  In general these
will sort themselves out when the mirror refreshes itself. 




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