Have you tried a different mirror? It's been working perfectly on my system, even though I do get non-us from non-us.debian.org.
It does, though, sound like there's something wrong with your system. Maybe a corrupt .deb file somewhere? On 18 Jan 2002 09:22:49 -0500 "Paul Smith"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't been able to do an apt-get update successfully for three or > four days now; does anyone know what's going on? > > I get these failures every time I try: > > gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated > Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/non-free Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > Err http://http.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > Fetched 5229kB in 2m41s (32.4kB/s) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/binary-i386/Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/source/Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/non-free/source/Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/contrib/source/Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/source/Sources > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > Failed to fetch > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages > Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1) > ... > > A bunch of other updates _do_ work, but not these. At this point I'm > wondering if something is wrong on my system, because it seems like > these errors would have certainly been found and fixed by now...? > > Help! -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Edell ! +------------------------------------------------------------+
