Re: portsnap snapshot corruption?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:46:06PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-09-20 21:42, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Hi Colin,
> >
> > I've tried removing all of /var/db/portsnap/* and refetching several
> > times today, but all the attempts resulted in corrupt snapshots, like
> > this one:
> >
> > % root_at_kobe:/root# rm -fr /var/db/portsnap/*
> > % root_at_kobe:/root# portsnap fetch
> > % Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> > % Fetching public key from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > % Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > % Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
> > % Fetching snapshot generated at Thu Sep 20 04:07:10 EEST 2007:
> > % 1a2086f1a8eea72b21ecc5c6a03587a26e3b86055bc54a100% of   49 MB 1451 kBps 00m00s
> > % Extracting snapshot... done.
> > % Verifying snapshot integrity... gunzip: snap/2bafbd0d8edc7a7cfa7e19833986ae4032f82006fd0d65cba9c4a75b432b5c8e.gz: unexpected end of file
> > % gunzip: snap/2bafbd0d8edc7a7cfa7e19833986ae4032f82006fd0d65cba9c4a75b432b5c8e.gz: uncompress failed
> > % snapshot corrupt.
> > % root_at_kobe:/root#
> >
> > Is something wrong with the portsnap servers, or should I try to see if
> > there's something odd with my latest CURRENT upgrade?
> 
> Damn, right after having spent an hour on this *and* posting a message,
> our local admin notified us that our network has started using a
> transparent proxy -- which is apparently broken.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.  I'll try to resolve this with our IT guys :)

I've been having the same problem and I'm not behind any sort of proxy.
Also, what sort of proxy would corrupt that 49MB gzipped tar file in a
way that it passes gunzip -t?  I think this is a real problem with
the snapshots being served up by the portsnap servers.  I posted this
issue to freebsd-ports_at_ yesterday.

Would someone please do an initial portsnap fetch and let me know if it
works for them?  I haven't seen a "works for me" yet since this problem
started.

Thank You,

Marcus