Upgrade to Gutsy fails with bzip2 error

[impert]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Tried to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy on an AMD64 box, several times, using update manager. The server appeared to be overloaded the other day, but tonight the connection was working at between 60 and 260 kb/s. No other app's were open.
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/restricted/source/Sources.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
I'll give it a try with the alternate CD tomorrow

[impert (cwallace-free)]

26/10/2007 Tried again with update-manager. Same same. There is no problem with the net connection as I was able to download the binary gibberish in the bz2 files. Log files attached.
(Why does it go looking for Feisty bits when I want Gutsy? Mystery)

[chovy (spam-chovy)]

had same problem on kubuntu-64

[impert (cwallace-free)]

Still the same.

[impert (cwallace-free)]

A workaround for this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3935173#post3935173

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[impert (cwallace-free)]

> We were wondering is this still an issue for you?

Not for me, (see my post above), but perhaps still for others.

[Gareth Fitzworthington (mapping-gp-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report (no affirmative responses to questioning regarding present status of issue). Please reopen it if you think this issue requires on-going attention, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!