For the benefit of the mirrors people this is a follow-up to a bug reported
against apt at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346138
piwakawaka:~# aptitude update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Hit ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid Release.gpg
Get:1 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid Release [42.0kB]
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid Release.gpg
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid Release
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
Ign http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Sources
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Sources [1109kB]
Hit ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/main Packages
Hit ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/non-free Packages
Hit ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sid/non-free Sources
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages [24.6kB] <--- a bit
small
99% [2 Sources bzip2 2084864] [Waiting for headers] 30.1kB/s 0s <--- a bit
quick
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages [3964kB] <--- a bit
big
Err http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 5139kB in 3m3s (28.0kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
piwakawaka:~# l /var/lib/apt/lists/
total 58032
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42010 Dec 28 10:02
debian.paradise.net.nz_debian_dists_sid_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Dec 28 10:02
debian.paradise.net.nz_debian_dists_sid_Release.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 221131 Dec 28 09:17
debian.paradise.net.nz_debian_dists_sid_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15726115 Dec 28 09:17
debian.paradise.net.nz_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 259513 Dec 25 09:16
debian.paradise.net.nz_debian_dists_sid_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38234 Jan 7 10:09
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15891337 Jan 8 09:22
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5431128 Jan 8 09:48
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_contrib_source_Sources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15885018 Jan 7 09:20
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5427269 Jan 7 09:46
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269471 Jan 7 09:20
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_non-free_binary-i386_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99117 Jan 7 09:46
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_non-free_source_Sources
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:07 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:10 partial
piwakawaka:~# l /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 378 Jan 7 10:09
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_Release.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24590 Jan 8 09:48
http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
piwakawaka:~# cp -pr /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists-200601081428
piwakawaka:~# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
rm: remove regular file
`/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_Release.gpg'? y
rm: remove regular file
`/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages'?
y
piwakawaka:~# rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/d*
piwakawaka:~# rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/h*
piwakawaka:~# l /var/lib/apt/lists/
total 4
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 14:07 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:29 partial
piwakawaka:~# l /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
total 0
piwakawaka:~# aptitude update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Get:1 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid Release [42.0kB]
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org sid Release.gpg [378B]
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org sid Release [38.2kB]
Get:5 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/main Packages [2947kB]
Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Packages [2986kB]
Get:7 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/non-free Packages [59.9kB]
Get:8 ftp://debian.paradise.net.nz sid/contrib Packages [52.0kB]
Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Packages [52.1kB]
Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org sid/non-free Packages [60.6kB]
Get:11 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Sources [1109kB]
Get:12 http://http.us.debian.org sid/contrib Sources [23.0kB]
Get:13 http://http.us.debian.org sid/non-free Sources [24.6kB]
Fetched 7395kB in 4m13s (29.2kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
piwakawaka:~#
After which the upgrade goes ahead normally.
regards
Mark
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