From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 01:43:23 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 331E716A4DD for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 01:43:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary@pattersonsoftware.com) Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E963243D6A for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 01:43:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gary@pattersonsoftware.com) Received: from 203-206-108-153.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO tosh) ([203.206.108.153]) by customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony8.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 05 Aug 2006 09:43:07 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.07,214,1151856000"; d="scan'208,217"; a="422411902:sNHT28799350" From: "Gary Newcombe" To: Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:43:06 +1000 Message-ID: <000001c6b830$80213a00$1f01a8c0@tosh> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Aca4MH88qPzlJySeQJiXcP66zPRphA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0631-3, 04/08/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 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 01:43:23 -0000 Hello all, I'm getting the following error when I use portsnap lately on one of my servers: [mesh:/home/gary]# portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Thu 3 Aug 2006 04:45:32 EST to Sat 5 Aug 2006 11:06:54 EST. Fetching 0 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 0 metadata files... done. Fetching 2 patches.. done. Applying patches... done. 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. FreeBSD mesh.lhshoses.com.au 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jul 28 13:29:26 EST 2006 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MESH i386 Anyone got any ideas? Thanks Gary