gzip error on apt-get update with coLinux

**saul11** · 11-13-2005

Hello everyone,

I finally want to try Linux and as a webdesigner it would be great to have both windows and Linux running at the same time, so I tried coLinux. But now when I want to run the command 'apt-get update' I get gzip errors:

Code:

apt-get update
Get&#58;1 http&#58;//security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages &#91;142kB&#93;
Ign http&#58;//security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
99% &#91;1 Packages gzip 0&#93; &#91;Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org&#93;&#91;Connecting to www.backports.org&#93;
gzip&#58; stdin&#58; invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip&#58; stdin&#58; invalid compressed data--length error
Err http&#58;//security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
    Sub-process gzip returned an error code &#40;1&#41;
99% &#91;Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org&#93;&#91;Connecting to www.backports.org&#93;
...

What's happening and what do I do to resolve it?

Thanks,
Paul

**saul11** · 11-13-2005

I don't know if this has anything to do whit it, but I don't get replies when I ping... When I ping for example google.com, it shows the IP, but no replies and keeps waiting:

Code:

ping google.com
PING google.com &#40;72.14207.99&#41;&#58; 56 data bytes

When I abort the command by pressing ctrl+c, the next message is returned

--- google.com ping statistics ---
53 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% data loss

**drtvasudevan** · 11-13-2005

your networking seems to be faulty.
see wiki and check them.
tv

**saul11** · 11-13-2005

heck, I followed countless of documents to set up coLinux and networking in it, but the result described above is the best I could get. I was hoping someone could come up with some specific information based my description. I don't understand why the DNS server can be reached to look up IPs, but nothing more?

**drtvasudevan** · 11-14-2005

am working with xp sp2.
yester day when i tried i could not connect initially and while foolong with netwrk propertis then i found a tab to define the mtu value.
found it to be 1500
i though i will altre it and changed it to 1492.
suddenly it connected.

still my update command did not work.
i am wondering if it has something to do with firewall in xp though the s/w functions as a virtual network and so not likely to be so to my newbie mind.

**saul11** · 11-14-2005

I also set this MTU value of the TAP adapter to 1492 and indeed the icon in the tray telling it to be not connected dissapeared. But with no further effect. I found a page saying to ignore the not connected icon seemingly this is correct.

The page I tried lastly is http://orangevolt.com/wordpress/arch...for-beginners/ I also tried these http://enterprise.linux.com/article....1&tid=11&tid=4
http://www.atlink.it/~conti/?page_id=12
and several more including the colinux wiki...

This one looks interesting too, but not yet tried it http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2173/ I quickly looked through it and saw the special consideration about disabling the Checksum Offload. But disabling didn't help...

Also disabling the windows firewall had no effect...

**drtvasudevan** · 11-14-2005

right now ithink i have solved my problem.
it seems to be dhcp.
one needs to have the dhcp application 9in debian it is pump)
i checked and it is not present in Debian-3OrO.ext3.1gb
further research led me to a later version with pump- Debian-3.0r2.ext3-mit-backports.1gb.bz2 (28MB) from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=98788.

have downloaded that.
going to try.

it may be worthwhile if your problem is also dhcp

tv

**saul11** · 11-14-2005

I already have this version... so I doubt it will help

Btw the gzip version is 1.3.2 of 2001, could it be that this is outdated?

I have had data transfered (saw it on my windows DU meter) so the network setting work so it seems?!

Here's another link with setup instructions
http://www.informit.com/guides/conte...seqNum=25&rl=1

**saul11** · 11-14-2005

huh, suddenly the "apt-get update" command finished successully, this was just after I checked the version of gzip with "gzip -V version"
Pinging runs succesfully too!

My config is

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<colinux>
    <block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\c&#58;\coLinux\Debian-3.0r2.ext3-mit-backports.1gb" 
    enabled="true" />
    <block_device index="1" path="\DosDevices\c&#58;\coLinux\swap_256Mb" 
    enabled="true" />
    <bootparams>root=/dev/cobd0</bootparams>
    <initrd path="initrd.gz" />
    <image path="vmlinux" />
    <memory size="256" />
   <network index="0" type="tap" name="Local Area Connection 3"/>
</colinux>

I install coLinux as a windows service with a .bat file containing

Code:

colinux-daemon.exe -c default.colinux.xml --install-service "Cooperative Linux"

and I run this service with another .bat

Code:

colinux-console-fltk

I have my connection bridged with the TAP adapter as "TAP";
The TAP adapter has the default settings (MTU is 1500))
I have my internet's DNS server IP in /etc/resolve.conf (just the IP, not preceded by "nameserver" or so and I don't know if this is necessary, but read it somewhere

);
my /etc/network/interfaces file holds

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

everything else is braked;

I have windows XP SP2 and my firewall is on (no virsusscanner); I have an ADSL internet connection; ...

I just ran both "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" succesfully. And now installing everything listed on http://www.informit.com/guides/conte...seqNum=26&rl=1
including KDE (don't forget its core: 'apt-get install kde-core', else 'apt-get install kde' will return errors).
This seems to work!

But what a bummer, the processed stopped because there was not enough space left on device. What can I do about this?

**saul11** · 11-15-2005

Okay I have 4GB of space now, thanks to http://wiki.colinux.org/cgi-bin/ExpandingRoot

Code:

1&#41; Download the larger, preformatted filesystem of your choice from &#91;WWW&#93; http&#58;//gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/fs &#40;Remember that 4095Mb is the limit if you are using FAT32 &#40;and not NTFS&#41; on the windows partition where the filesystem will be stored.&#41;

2&#41; Unpack the new filesystem using the bunzip2 program of your choice, such as 7zip &#91;WWW&#93; http&#58;//7zip.org

3&#41; Edit your colinux.xml config file. Add a line to load that filesystem on an unused cobd device, e.g.

      <block_device index="3" path="\DosDevices\c&#58;\Program Files\colinux\fs_4095Mb" enabled="true" />

4&#41; Boot into colinux. Make a mountpoint and mount the new filesystem from the cobd device. E.g.

      mkdir /mnt/test
      mount /dev/cobd3 /mnt/test  &#40;that's /dev/cobd/3 on GenToo&#41;

5&#41; Copy the old filesystem onto the new filesystem using cp -ax. Once it finishes, unmount and exit colinux. E.g.

      cp -ax / /mnt/test
      umount /mnt/test
      shutdown -h now

6&#41; Change your colinux.xml config file to use the new filesystem as root and delete the line referring to the new filesystem you added in a previous step. &#40;You might want to zip up the old filesystem for backup purposes.&#41; E.g.

      <block_device index="0" path="\DosDevices\c&#58;\Program Files\colinux\fs_4095Mb" enabled="true" />

7&#41; Reboot colinx. You should have a larger filesystem &#40;use "df -h" to check&#41;. You're done.

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