[Lucid Desktop] GZIP Package Contains a bug

[kantoka]

Binary package hint: gzip

The gzip package in Lucid seems to contain a bug. When I'm (for example) doing kernel compilations, I get this error messages:

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gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
...
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I solved the problem by installing the gzip package from ubuntu 8.04 hardy. The package from 8.10 intrepid might also work well. After the "new" old gzip package is installed the, care must be taken when doing updates since the system now wants to update gzip the latest version.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gzip 1.3.12-9ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 16 00:39:45 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gzip

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 524366, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.