Up2date - IOError: Not a gzipped file

[Craig Goodyear]

William Hooper wrote:
> Craig Goodyear said:
> 
> 
>>Does anyone have a potential solution or a starting place for resolution?
>>I have appended the output generated when trying to run up2date.  Please
>>help, I'm stuck.
>>
>>Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1...
>>
>>Fetching
>>http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/1/i386/os//headers/header.info...
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 110, in _read_gzip_header
>>    raise IOError, 'Not a gzipped file'
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I know in the not too distant past that mirrors.kernel.org was having
> issues syncing.  There is a bug similar to yours that is also trying that
> mirror:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118596
> 
> I would suggest giving another mirror a try and see if that clears it up.
> 

Thanks to all who responded.  Changing to another mirror fixed the problem.

Craig