pkg_add - error while reading header / read short file / gzheader truncated

Hello Misc,

I am configuring a couple of laptops for my kids, i had installed 70 with
i3 and gcompris in them, its been a while since the last update so i
decided to make a fresh install.

So I installed 74 in both of them, used the autoinstall so the process was
straightforward as always, rebooted, hw_update, syspatch, everything as
expected.

The problem comes when trying to install a package, i am trying just to of
them: feh and gcompris, in both laptops, and i get the following errors,
they are several since i do a few tries and then the problem goes and comes
at different packages

pkg_add: Ustar [package name, it is different every try, meaning
lcms2-2.15.tgz, gstreamer, libass-] [?]: Error while reading header
https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.4/packages/amd64/lame-3.100p1.tgz:
Read short file

My configuration are:
1 laptop, re0, trying pkg_add feh
1 laptop, iwn0, trying pkg_add gcompris

both with the same results, maybe i should try in another LAN, but could it
be a problem with the CDN server ?

Thank you for your time,

-- Manuel Solis

>>

Hello,

I'm new to openBSD about 3 days old. and I ran into the same issue as
you. I would

pkg_add something and I kept getting the header message. someone on
IRC helped me

Simple. change the cdn to another mirror

look at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Mirror

Basically You find a mirror probably ftp like I did go to vim or nano
/etc/installurl

delete the cdn add another mirror and re-run the pkg_add you might
need to pkg_delete

the partial and then re-run. pkg_add After all that you might need
pkg_add -u to see if the new mirror

fixes all the other partials


Hope this helps


~ Joe B