Maybe an issue with the web server? Downloading the file with firefox and wget will give different files: 216856 May 30 11:38 firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz 216991 Mar 22 19:10 wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz The Apache is zipping the file on the fly again, but firefox does not unzip it right: firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml: XML document text wget/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression firefox/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml is the original zipped file! Sniffing while downloading with firefox: > GET /linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz HTTP/1.1 > Host: ftp.scientificlinux.org > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 > Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 > Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > Referer: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/ > Connection: keep-alive > Pragma: no-cache > Cache-Control: no-cache > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:38:04 GMT > Server: Apache > Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:10:26 GMT > ETag: "3fa15b6f-34f9f-4d8875e974880" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Content-Encoding: gzip > Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' unsafe-inline; > X-Content-Security-Policy: allow 'self'; default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' unsafe-inline; > Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=200 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: application/x-gzip > > 1faa [...] Sniffing while downloading with wget: > GET /linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: Wget/ (linux-gnu) > Accept: */* > Host: ftp.scientificlinux.org > Connection: Keep-Alive > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:49:27 GMT > Server: Apache > Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:10:26 GMT > ETag: "3fa15b6f-34f9f-4d8875e974880" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 216991 > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' unsafe-inline; > X-Content-Security-Policy: allow 'self'; default-src 'self'; style-src 'self' unsafe-inline; > Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=200 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Content-Type: application/x-gzip > > ^_213^H^@^@^@^@^@^B^C254Z333s333֙^?357_qV/j247U330vvgvv\v353244333d266323355244 [...] I think apache should be configured not to zip already zipped files. Ciao Ansgar Am 28.05.2013 17:25, schrieb Pat Riehecky: > When I run less on the file, it show the text as expected. > > Spacewalk is not really my area of expertise.... is your Spacewalk > server fully updated? > > Pat > > On 05/28/2013 10:16 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >> I downloaded it with wget and used the less command on it. >> sure enough when i use cat on it it returns binary data but it still >> doesn't explain why this only happens with scientific Linux repos. Im >> wondering if its because there is both a comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz and a >> comps-sl6-x86_64.xml file in the repo. or if spacewalk is complaining >> about an other file the error is somewhat vague the only reason I >> thought the comps file might be the issue is because its mentioned >> right before the error. >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >> On 05/28/2013 09:19 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: >>> Hello >>> I have been having issues with spacewalk and Scientific Linux 6.4 >>> and 6 rolling repos >>> after investigation I found 2 errors >>> first >>> " >>> Repo >>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/ >>> has comps file comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz. >>> ERROR: Not a gzipped file >>> " >>> >>> The second is spacewalk 1.8 doesn't handle the error gracefully >>> but version 1.9 does. >>> note version 1.8 does not produce the "ERROR: Not a gzipped file" >>> instead it does a trace back about an unknown error code. >>> >>> Ive checked >>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.4/x86_64/os/repodata/comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz >>> and been able to confirm that indeed it is not gziped this should >>> be corrected in whatever script is generating it. >>> >>> Thank You >>> Paul Robert Marino >> >> Thanks for the report, >> >> The comps.xml files for SL6.4 were compressed with zopfli in gzip >> compatibility mode. This resulted in a 11% size savings on my >> limited testing. >> >> They decompress correctly with gzip (just tested again) >> >> $ gzip -dc comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz |wc -l >> 16830 >> >> and they are correctly identified by 'file' as being gzip >> compressed data. >> >> $ file comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz >> comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max >> compression >> >> How did you check the comps-sl6-x86_64.xml.gz file that it >> reported as a non-gzip file? >> >> Pat >> >> -- >> Pat Riehecky >> >> Scientific Linux developer >> http://www.scientificlinux.org/ >> >> > > > -- > Pat Riehecky > > Scientific Linux developer > http://www.scientificlinux.org/ > -- Ansgar Hockmann-Stolle, Universität Osnabrück, Rechenzentrum Albrechtstraße 28, 49076 Osnabrück, Deutschland, Raum 31/E77B +49 541 969-2749 (fax -2470), http://www.home.uos.de/anshockm