Corrupted Downloads

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:56:11PM -0500, Byron Poland wrote:

> Okay, I just read through the bug reports for the bug you linked to. 
> This is the unmodified sources.list as provided, and it also occurs
> after I uncomment universe and add multiverse to it.  But it is also
> happening on actual deb's it is downloading, which I didn't see
> mentioned in the quick read I did of bugzilla.  I took a break from
> the machine today, but will work on it a little tomorrow, and send in
> the actual output from apt-get or aptitude.

Very strange.  If it happens with debs, it's definitely a different bug.
Have you been able to save copies of any of the corrupted files (they should
end up in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial or /var/lib/apt/lists/partial)?
In what way are they corrupt (too long, too short, wrong data)?  Is there
any pattern?

Do you have any problems with programs other than apt?  For example, web
browsing?  There seem to be a couple of known bugs in apt's implementation
of chunked encoding:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274978
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290694

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 - mdz