Ubuntu hosting corrupt packages

[savage]

Hi,

Anyone have some words of wisdom please? I'm desperately trying to recover from a failed dist-upgrade, there's a few posts about this (without resolution) on the Ubuntu forums, and frankly, the package Ubuntu put together is corrupt

root@netsonic:/var/cache/apt/archives# wget ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb
--2009-09-16 13:34:26--  ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb
           => `linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb'
Resolving ftp.ubuntu.com... 91.189.88.46, 91.189.88.140, 91.189.88.31, ...
Connecting to ftp.ubuntu.com|91.189.88.46|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux ... done.
==> SIZE linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb ... 23070986
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb ... done.
Length: 23070986 (22M)

100%[===================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 23,070,986  23.2K/s   in 15m 20s

2009-09-16 13:49:49 (24.5 KB/s) - `linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb' saved [23070986]

root@netsonic:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 17942 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.27-14-server (from linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb) ...
Done.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb (--install):
 corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-server
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.27-14-server_2.6.27-14.41_amd64.deb
root@netsonic:/var/cache/apt/archives#

 

[Arador]

It does not always mean the package is corrupt. The download could have gotten corrupted.

Rule of thumb for most OS's: When you upgrade, do a clean install.

If you absolutely in no way can do that, then download the alternate installer disk from Ubuntu instead of ising the auto upgrade so you can check the md5sums on the disc and know that the download was perfect, then upgrade from the disc.

 

[ponder]

Rule of thumb for most OS's: When you upgrade, do a clean install.

If you absolutely in no way can do that, then download the alternate installer disk from Ubuntu instead of ising the auto upgrade so you can check the md5sums on the disc and know that the download was perfect, then upgrade from the disc.

+1 with the exception of rolling release distros.

 

[Arador]

Ahh yes. Thanks for reminding me of that.