Etch amd64 mirror broken? - Packages.gz was corrupt

[Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de 
> [mailto:linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de] De la part de 
> Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
> Envoyé : 30 avril 2009 07:52
> À : Michael Tautschnig; linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Objet : RE: Etch amd64 mirror broken? - Packages.gz was corrupt
> 
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de
> > [mailto:linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de] De la part de Michael 
> > Tautschnig Envoyé : 29 avril 2009 16:12 À : linux-fai at uni-koeln.de 
> > Objet : Re: Etch amd64 mirror broken? - Packages.gz was corrupt
> > 
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I've tried changing my FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="etch 
> > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian" but I get the exact same error with
> > > debian.org:
> > > Calling debootstrap etch
> > > /data/fai/nfsroot/QC/amd64/live/filesystem.dir
> > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian [^]
> > > I: Retrieving Packages
> > > I: Validating Packages
> > > W: 
> > > 
> > 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
> > > [^] was corrupt
> > > I: Retrieving Packages
> > > I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
> > > I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
> > > W: Failure trying to run: chroot
> > > /data/fai/nfsroot/QC/amd64/live/filesystem.dir mount -t proc proc 
> > > /proc
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Everything used to be working really really smoothly until recently 
> > > (we actually noticed that on april 17th).
> > > 
> > > Lastly, our 32bit fai runs without a flaw and I can update my 
> > > nfsroot without any problems using either debian.org or my local debmirror.
> > > 
> > 
> > Just a really blind guess: Are you working behind some proxy? 
> > Has it cached that file (in a broken way)? Its just debootstrap that 
> > is running here ...
> 
> Nope... and that is why I'm really really wondering what 
> might be causing this???  It does the same error either 
> directly on debian.org or on my internal debmirror ONLY on 
> amd64 etch ???  And that is totally new since perhaps 2-3 week?
> 
> I'm probably mistaking but it makes me wonder if there could 
> be a real corruption of the "Pacakges" files for amd64 etch 
> on the official debian repository???  Or curiously enough, a 
> "new" bug in the debootstrap that suddently appeared 2-3 weeks ago?
> 
> What's wierd is that it never stopped working on i386 but 
> suddently got marked as "corrupted" by debootstrap only for amd64 ?
> 
> Wierd guess: official etch amd64 repository broken?

OK, tried something else and got some pretty interesting results... Although it does not solve my problem:

I've installed debootstrap from lenny and reinvoked fai-setup -vvv and this time I did'nt got any signs of errors against Pacakges.gz.

Although due to incompatibilities between lenny vs etch it failed to finish (I actually did'nt tought it would go that far...):
install_packages: executing chroot /data/fai/nfsroot/QC/amd64/live/filesystem.dir apt-get clean
Can't call method "exists" on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/install_packages line 416, <FILE> line 38.
install_packages exit code: 2

Curiously enough I reinstalled debootstrap from etch and reinvoked fai-setup -vvv and this time magic occured since it was capable of validating the Package.gz and it seemed like working well until this:

I: Base system installed successfully.
ERROR: debootstrap did not complete successfully.
This is mostly caused by a broken mirror.
Please check your mirror or use an official mirror.
No diversion `any diversion of /sbin/discover-modprobe', none removed
Log file written to /var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log
Could not find the type of your nfs server. Maybe
no nfs server is installed. I can't restart it.
FAI setup finished.
Log file written to /var/log/fai/fai-setup.log

I'm getting that error wether I use my local debian mirror repository or the official debian.org...

So still I'm getting at the same guess: Could the official debian repository for etch amd64 be incompatible with etch debmirror since a few weeks?

Again help appreciated!

- vin