Re: [Trinux-talk] Invalid gzip magic

[Timothy B. <tb...@ar...>]

It is possible that the cause may be elsewhere.

If your trinux system runs out of ramdisk, I believe that it keeps quiet 
about it.  If you are attempting to get packages, and some fail, it could 
be the large packages that are failing, due to insufficient resources 
(memory or ramdisk).

Trinux is special because it runs in a resource restricted environment.  
It assumes that the operator knows this.  Error checking and the 
meaningful text messages can sometimes double the size of an executable.  
Trinux must be kept small, and sometimes this is at the expense of 
even minimal diagnostics.

Your request for help is very short on details.  A short list of 3 
packages that failed, and 3 that succeed, could help determine the cause.

Also, try to include some parameters of your running system.  Most 
importantly, the total amount of installed ram, and the output of the df 
(disk free) command, would really help.

And please ACK the list, when a suggested fix does the deed.  It is most 
frustrating to see several posts of a problem, and never a final "That 
fixed it!".

Thanks!

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Matt Smith wrote:

> Using the latest boot floppy, when attempting to get most of the packages
> over the network, I get:
> 
> gunzip: Invalid gzip magic
> 
> And the package doesn't load.  It works for some packages on the mirrors,
> but only a couple.  I saw a post about this back in March, but the
> suggested correction didn't help here.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> --Matt
> 
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