Up2date - IOError: Not a gzipped file

[William Hooper]

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.

-- 
William Hooper