[NBLUG/talk] "apt-get update" errors

[Lincoln Peters]

Lately, when I run "apt-get update", I've occasionally gotten errors 
claiming that the files it downloaded are compressed.  Here are a few 
samples of the error messages I've seen:


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bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
	perhaps it is corrupted?  *Possible* reason follows.
bzip2: Inappropriate ioctl for device
	Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)

It is possible that the compressed file(s) have become corrupted.
You can use the -tvv option to test integrity of such files.

You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.

Errftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu stable/main Packages
   Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)

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gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Errftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu testing/main Sources
   Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

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Note that, although the sample errors I provided here are both from the 
<ftp://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/> mirror, I've gotten the same errors 
from the <ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/> mirror and the primary server 
(<ftp://ftp.debian.org/>) as well.

Has anyone else been experiencing this problem?


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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>