Re: pkg_add: Read error - Premature end of gzip compressed data: Input/output error

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%rya-online.net@localhost>]

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> ===>  pkg_add: Read error for bin/nethack-tty: Premature end of gzip
> compressed data: Input/output error
>
> I've seen this before, and I onder if anyone has seen this, too, and maybe
> investigated what happened?

I have seen this "Premature end of gzip compressed data" error when trying
to open a .bz2 file with "tar -z", perhaps it is related? (I found a .bz2
file masquerading as a .gz one day)

iain