[lug] apt-get errors

[Gary Hodges]

On a particular machine I installed woody then upgraded to sarge.  The 
sources.list file referenced the "testing" version.  I ran "apt-get 
update" successfully a few times over a few days.  Then I changed 
"testing" to "sarge" in the sources.list file and immediately started 
getting errors like this:


99% [4 Sources gzip 0] [Waiting for headers]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Sources
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
99% [5 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/main Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
99% [6 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

Failed to fetch 
http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Failed to fetch 
http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
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.gz  
Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

This morning I replaced "sarge" with "testing" in the sources.list file 
but I still get the same errors.  When I run an update it seems like 
most of the process works and it is only having problems with a 
couple/few packages.  For a few days I thought it must be a problem with 
file(s) in the archive(s), but I'm not seeing any recent reports of this 
with google.

Gary