cannot update 7.04 says "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz : Subprocess gzip returned an error

to add to query at the begining of the error code it says "failed to fetch"

try updating the apt cache by typing the following command in a terminal window. It will ask you for a password, type your password in, you won't see anything while typing it in, that is ok, just press enter after typing it in.

sudo apt-get update

Then try downloading your package again.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for responding so soon I did do that before contacting you and it never worked. This time i did it exactly as you instructed and the terminal readout was:
kamakea@Paulettes-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Password:
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages [4912kB]
99% [5 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages [4912kB]
99% [6 Packages gzip 0] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources
Fetched 766B in 1m47s (7B/s)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
kamakea@Paulettes-laptop:~$

I still cannot update or upgrade and so I guess it did not work although I feel progress has been made as I did get this result.

I'm sorry that didn't work. It probably means that a partial file got downloaded somehow...maybe a short network disturbance...and apt doesn't know how to recover from it.

Anyway to fix it, you will need to do the following.

In a terminal, enter the following commands. The first command will prompt you for your password, just type your password in even though you won't see anything on the screen, and hit enter. The first command will create a backup of your /etc/apt/sources.list in case something goes wrong :)
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Find the line that says "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe" (without the quotes)

Insert a # in front of the line that says "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe" (without the quotes)

Save the file

In the terminal want you to update again. The command to enter is below, it should run ok...
sudo apt-get update

Now, need to re-enable the repository again so in a terminal enter
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now, you want to remove the # that you inserted on this line "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe" (without the quotes)

Save the file

And again you want to do
sudo apt-get update

In theory, everything should be ok now.

Hope this helps.

Dear Robert I got to the sources.list (/etc/apt) - gedit and it looked like this:
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates restricted main multiverse universe

There are no quotes around anything. I did however put the # symbol in front of the 14th line then saved it. I then proceeded to the terminal again and put the command sudo apt-get update. This gives me this screen:

kamakea@Paulettes-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages [4912kB]
99% [5 Packages gzip 0] 34.1kB/s 0s
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
  Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Fetched 5B in 7s (1B/s)
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
kamakea@Paulettes-laptop:~$

What am I doing wrong???

This what happened when I tried update manager again:

Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/Release.gpg: Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/Release.gpg: Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-updates/Release.gpg: Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (1)

Karen, I'm sorry you are still having trouble.

I think you did everything right, but one question. You said you put the # on the 14th line...did you mean 17th line (counting blank lines based on what you pasted)...

If you did put it on the 17th line, then I don't have an answer for you...I hope that someone else will be able to help.

Best regards,
Robert

If counting blank lines then yes I put the # symbol in the 17th line as it was the closest to what you described only no quote marks as there are no quote marks on the whole thing.

Oh by the way my name is Paulette not Karen but I realize you are probably working on more than just my problem. Thank you!

Gee Thanks Robert, I finally updated to the 7.10. It took some doing and I am grateful for the help. Have a Happy and Prosperous new Year. Respectfully, Paulette.

Thanks Robert Di Gioia, that solved my question.

Hello

i have ubuntu 7.10 server gutsy on a brand new compter. ( do you need the hardware ? )

it is a fresh installation.

i have every thing working they way i want it exept for the apt commands.

user1@fsrv:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu edgy main restrivcted
user1@fsrv:~$

user1@fsrv:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 fsrv

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
user1@fsrv:~$

user1@fsrv:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

# eth1
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
user1@fsrv:~$

user1@fsrv:~$ ping mirror.isoc.org.il
PING foss.isoc.org.il (192.115.211.70) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from foss.isoc.org.il (192.115.211.70): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=16.6 ms
64 bytes from foss.isoc.org.il (192.115.211.70): icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=15.8 ms
64 bytes from foss.isoc.org.il (192.115.211.70): icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=16.8 ms

--- foss.isoc.org.il ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.899/16.467/16.843/0.421 ms
user1@fsrv:~$
user1@fsrv:~$ ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
PING us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.31) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from leningradskaya.canonical.com (91.189.88.31): icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=95.7 ms
64 bytes from leningradskaya.canonical.com (91.189.88.31): icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=93.6 ms
64 bytes from leningradskaya.canonical.com (91.189.88.31): icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=93.6 ms

--- us.archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1998ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.625/94.365/95.778/1.060 ms
user1@fsrv:~$
user1@fsrv:~$

but !

while tring

apt-get update

i get

0% [waiting for headers]

i tried several repositories sites.
also tried several ubuntu vers.

nothing ...

i i wait a lot of time, like 10 minutes. i get a long output of ignores & erroes on the apt-get update.
it also sais it remarked a line becouse the server didn't responce. though it does respond to ping.

i thing it is a resolving problem.

in the lan,
i have the powerbook i am writing this msg from. 2 pc ( win98 & winxp ) and the linux box. some wifi and some cable.

all can use the internet unlimited.

thank you for any ideas.

Guy

this is how it looks ( and it took the computer 20 minutes... )

91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release.gpg Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/source/Sources.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/source/Sources.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/source/Sources.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/source/Sources.gz Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
user1@fsrv:~$

thanks.

Hi!

I think your problem is that you appear to be on gutsy (7.10), but you have some older repositories enabled as well. You may have a reason for this, but I'd like to ask you to try putting a # before these three lines in /etc/sources.list and see if that helps.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu edgy main restricted

If it works, you may want to regenerate your sources.list to ensure that you have what you have the repositories you need, as it seems that your sources.list is short (again, you may have a reason for this, is so, you can ignore this). An easy way to do this is by going to this link: http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic

Also, for future reference, you will probably get quicker response if you open a new question rather than append your question to a solved one :)

Good luck and hope this helps.

Oh, I forgot. After changing your sources.list file, you need to update apt. To do this, type the following command in a terminal, it will ask for your password, just type it in and press enter even though you won't see anything while typing the password, it is ok.

sudo apt-get update

cheers

Aloha Robert,
Was that last email suppose to be for me or for the person GUY who's last comment is below? My system seem to be up to date as it tells me when i have updates and it says it is Gutsy (7.10). So is your instructions for me or Guy? Sorry to be confused but I am making sure, Then I have to figure out how to do your instructions if they are for me.
Thanx,
Paulette

Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750

Guy posted a new comment:
this is how it looks ( and it took the computer 20 minutes... )

91.189.88.46 80]
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release.gpg
  Connection failed
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg Connection
 failed
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/source/Sources.gz
  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
Failed to fetch
 http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/source/Sources.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/source/Sources.gz
  Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
Failed to fetch
 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/source/Sources.gz
Reading package lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
 ones used instead.
user1@fsrv:~$

thanks.

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----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Di Gioia <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:47:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Question #20750]: cannot update 7.04 says "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz : Subprocess gzip returned an error

Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750

Robert Di Gioia posted a new comment:
Hi!

I think your problem is that you appear to be on gutsy (7.10), but you
have some older repositories enabled as well. You may have a reason for
this, but I'd like to ask you to try putting a # before these three
lines in /etc/sources.list and see if that helps.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu edgy main restricted

If it works, you may want to regenerate your sources.list to ensure
 that
you have what you have the repositories you need, as it seems that your
sources.list is short (again, you may have a reason for this, is so,
 you
can ignore this). An easy way to do this is by going to this link:
http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic

Also, for future reference, you will probably get quicker response if
you open a new question rather than append your question to a solved
 one
:)

Good luck and hope this helps.

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Paulette, it was for Guy.

Glad everything is working ok for you.

Best regards,

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 03:09 +0000, kamakea wrote:

> Question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> kamakea posted a new comment:
> Aloha Robert,
> Was that last email suppose to be for me or for the person GUY who's last comment is below? My system seem to be up to date as it tells me when i have updates and it says it is Gutsy (7.10). So is your instructions for me or Guy? Sorry to be confused but I am making sure, Then I have to figure out how to do your instructions if they are for me.
> Thanx,
> Paulette
>
>
> Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> Guy posted a new comment:
> this is how it looks ( and it took the computer 20 minutes... )
>
> 91.189.88.46 80]
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release.gpg
> Connection failed
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg Connection
> failed
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/source/Sources.gz
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/source/Sources.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/source/Sources.gz
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/source/Sources.gz
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
> user1@fsrv:~$
>
>
> thanks.
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert Di Gioia <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:47:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Question #20750]: cannot update 7.04 says "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz : Subprocess gzip returned an error
>
>
> Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> Robert Di Gioia posted a new comment:
> Hi!
>
> I think your problem is that you appear to be on gutsy (7.10), but you
> have some older repositories enabled as well. You may have a reason for
> this, but I'd like to ask you to try putting a # before these three
> lines in /etc/sources.list and see if that helps.
>
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
> deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu edgy main restricted
>
> If it works, you may want to regenerate your sources.list to ensure
> that
> you have what you have the repositories you need, as it seems that your
> sources.list is short (again, you may have a reason for this, is so,
> you
> can ignore this). An easy way to do this is by going to this link:
> http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic
>
> Also, for future reference, you will probably get quicker response if
> you open a new question rather than append your question to a solved
> one
> :)
>
> Good luck and hope this helps.
>

Thanx Robert

----- Original Message ----
From: Robert Di Gioia <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 5:24:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Question #20750]: cannot update 7.04 says "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz : Subprocess gzip returned an error

Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750

Robert Di Gioia posted a new comment:
Paulette, it was for Guy.

Glad everything is working ok for you.

Best regards,

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 03:09 +0000, kamakea wrote:

> Question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> kamakea posted a new comment:
> Aloha Robert,
> Was that last email suppose to be for me or for the person GUY who's
 last comment is below? My system seem to be up to date as it tells me
 when i have updates and it says it is Gutsy (7.10). So is your
 instructions for me or Guy? Sorry to be confused but I am making sure, Then I
 have to figure out how to do your instructions if they are for me.
> Thanx,
> Paulette
>
>
> Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> Guy posted a new comment:
> this is how it looks ( and it took the computer 20 minutes... )
>
> 91.189.88.46 80]
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/Release.gpg
> Connection failed
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg
  Connection
> failed
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/source/Sources.gz
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/dists/edgy/restrivcted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/restricted/source/Sources.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/source/Sources.gz
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Failed to fetch
>
  http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/restricted/source/Sources.gz
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or
 old
> ones used instead.
> user1@fsrv:~$
>
>
> thanks.
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
> Connection failed
> Connection failed
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.45 80]
> Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Robert Di Gioia <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 4:47:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Question #20750]: cannot update 7.04 says
 "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz :
 Subprocess gzip returned an error
>
>
> Your question #20750 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/20750
>
> Robert Di Gioia posted a new comment:
> Hi!
>
> I think your problem is that you appear to be on gutsy (7.10), but
 you
> have some older repositories enabled as well. You may have a reason
 for
> this, but I'd like to ask you to try putting a # before these three
> lines in /etc/sources.list and see if that helps.
>
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
> deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
> deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu edgy main restricted
>
> If it works, you may want to regenerate your sources.list to ensure
> that
> you have what you have the repositories you need, as it seems that
 your
> sources.list is short (again, you may have a reason for this, is so,
> you
> can ignore this). An easy way to do this is by going to this link:
> http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic
>
> Also, for future reference, you will probably get quicker response if
> you open a new question rather than append your question to a solved
> one
> :)
>
> Good luck and hope this helps.
>

You received this question notification because you are a direct
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Hi

thanks for replying

the reason the older vers. line are there is that i was "playing" with the source.list.

i know how it is ought to be. but nothing worked so i tried ..

the only line there now is

deb http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

and it still hangs.

also the orig. file that the installation uses hangs.

as you can see.

the installation remarks ( adding # ) to line that are not working ... ( all of them )

root@fsrv:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.bkp
#
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)]/ gutsy main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
root@fsrv:~#

thanks for your help.

Hi Guy,

I understand about trying the older distros...it makes sense, and it doesn't hurt to try :)

Just out of curiosity, can you browse to http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/ubuntu/ in firefox? I tried it, and was able to connect, be interesting to see if you can get there.

After changing the apt sources.list, did you run this command?

sudo apt-get update

Good luck

hi

i did try the "apt-get update" ( and some other apt commands .. nothing. as if i have a routing problem.
i tried disabling the ip6 .. but it changed nothing.

i don't have x on this maching. it is ubuntu 7.10 server.

i tried installing a text mode browser for this purpose .. and there started the all problem. :-)

i re-started the computer with ubuntu 6.x live disc and every thing worked fine. also i can rlogin from my powerbook laptop so the eth0 & eth1 cards are working fine.

it is a routing problem.

thanks for helping .. i will look for more info about it.

thanks.

Guy