aptitude update intermittent failure

[Sean Gibbins]

Hi All,

Is anyone else experiencing the same or similar intermittent
problem that I am with 'aptitude update'? [see below]

Perseverance almost always overcomes it, although sometmes
the failure will occur elsewhere in the sources list when I
retry.

Any thoughts?

Sean

i8600:/home/sean# aptitude update
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com warty-security/main Packages
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com warty-security/main Release
[88B]

---8<---Snip successful gets---

Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Release [81B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Sources
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/restricted Release
[87B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Sources
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/universe Release
[85B]
99% [16 Sources gzip 0]                                     
                                                            
                                                            
  59.0kB/s 0s
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com warty/main Sources
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 3656kB in 1m6s (55.0kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

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