Hi list, Last few days, when I try to do apt-get update on my Etch laptop, it fails with a number of different errors. I have made about twenty attempts.
First there were gzip errors caused by corrupted partial files left in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. Removing these allowed me to try again, but then there were a number of timeouts resulting in the update not completing. Persisting with this resulted in a repeat of the first error. Today I got a message about - and I quote apt-get here - a "Bizarre error" in which file sizes did not match. The offending files - meaning that each time they were incomplete or corrupted - have in each case been: ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages, and ftp.tux.org_java_debian_dists_testing_Release.gpg. I eventually managed to to update (and then upgrade) by directly downloading the above files and manually pasting them into /var/lib/apt/lists. But the problem has persisted. Updating works if the testing binary package repository is commented out in sources.list. In case it is relevant, I'm on a slow dialup connection while travelling, but that has not been a problem before. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks, John P.S My sources.list has: # deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main # deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free # deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free # deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates main contrib non-free deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ testing non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
