Couldn't validate Packages!

cccc · 02-14-2011, 04:42 PM

Hello

I try to build live usb-hdd on my squeeze and get this problem:

Code:

# lb build
P: Setting up cleanup function
P: Begin caching bootstrap stage...
P: Begin bootstrapping system...
P: If the following stage fails, the most likely cause of the problem is with your mirror configuration or a caching proxy.
P: Running cdebootstrap (download-only)... 
P: Retrieving Release
P: Retrieving Release.gpg
P: Validating Release
I: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny) <ftpmaster@debian.org>"
P: Parsing Release
P: Retrieving Packages.gz
P: Validating Packages.gz
E: Couldn't validate Packages!
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...

unSpawn · 02-14-2011, 05:30 PM

Does the application by any chance have any "--verbose" and or "--debug" switches to aid troubleshooting?

Quakeboy02 · 02-18-2011, 08:23 PM

I second unspawn's comment. I also had these unable to validate messages but I think mine were related to not having the debian-multimedia-keyring package installed. (I admit to laxity in following through on my own system for this install.) More info from you would be very helpful.

cccc · 02-18-2011, 09:00 PM

I've done all updates on my squeeze, created new lb config and changed the mirror server in config/bootstrapon.
Now it seems to work, I don't really know what causes this problem.

BTW I didn't change /etc/apt/sources.list and didn't install debian-multimedia-keyring.

Quakeboy02 · 02-19-2011, 09:21 AM

Now that I think of it, I believe my upgrade to Lenny had this same issue, and like you, I changed repos and it went away.

cccc · 02-23-2011, 07:37 PM

I get the same problem on other squeeze machines and after 10 times trying seems to work.

Quakeboy02 · 02-24-2011, 12:22 PM

Have you tried choosing a different repo than ftp.debian.us.org (or whatever it shows) during the install? Oddly enough, I did an install on my second machine (since the dist-upgrade failed and I didn't feel like messing with it) and didn't run into a single problem. Good luck! Sorry I don't have anything really useful to post for you.