From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 02:21:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DDEB16A4DA for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:21:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2564E43D45 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 02:21:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3I005A46J9ZR10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:21:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3I00E6O6J9M640@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:21:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J3I00LMU6J8DZK1@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:21:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 41957 invoked from network); Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:21:02 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:21:02 +0000 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:21:01 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <000001c6b830$80213a00$1f01a8c0@tosh> To: Gary Newcombe Message-id: <44D4008D.1000309@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <000001c6b830$80213a00$1f01a8c0@tosh> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap oddities X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:21:10 -0000 Gary Newcombe wrote: > I'm getting the following error when I use portsnap lately on one of my > servers: > [snip] > Fetching 2 new ports or files... > gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format > snapshot is corrupt. > > I have now removed /var/db/portsnap and started from scratch 3 times. This > fixes the problem, but a few days later, I get the same story. I haven't had > any problems on any of the other servers (although they have older kernels), > so I'm guessing this could be a problem with portsnap from this kernel build > or it's related to something else. First, the obvious thing to check: Are you running out of disk space on /var ? Second, please run 'portsnap --debug fetch' and send me the output; this will give me a chance of identifying the problem. Colin Percival