update/upgrade_error

[Frank Merenda]

Vram <lamsokvr <at> xprt.net> writes:
> Why do I suddenly get these errors?
>
[...] 
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubunty_dists_hoary-updates
_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> 
> And running apt-get update  does not solve the problem

I'm getting a similar error today:

----
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 4B in 0s (6B/s)
Failed to fetch
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/binary-i386
/Packages.gz
 
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.ubuntu.com 
breezy/main
Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_breezy_main
_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, 
or old ones used instead.
----

I have not changed anything on my system. I think that there may be a temporary
problem with the ubuntu archives. I can ping archive.ubuntu.com with no 
problems at all.

Personally, I'm going to just try again later tonight....

Take care,
-Frank