gzip error when updating packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is on the forums here (http://
It is random and it looks like something (possibly a time out) corrupts the file so that updating always fails. Other repositories will work fine, even those which are also archive.ubuntu or security.ubuntu.
When running update-manager an affected repository will fail with:
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I can't be much more precise as to the trigger but the solution posted in the forums (using a blank sources.list, running sudo apt-get update, reinstating sources.list and running sudo apt-get update again) clears up the problem.
Setting this as confirmed, since it has two duplicates and I experienced this in Dapper - but not since the upgrade to Edgy.