satellite-sync -c rhel-i386-as-3 -c redhat-advanced-server-i386
 rhel2.1-as-u5rhn-satellite-3.6.0-18-redhat-linux-as-i386-2.1-embedded-oracle.iso

The sync is failing with this error -- the email that was sent as a
result of the traceback is much longer, and will be included as an
attachment.

Exception type zlib.error
 
Exception Handler Information
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlSource.py", line 123, in process
    self.__parser.parse(self.__stream)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/sax/expatreader.py", line
43, in parse
    xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/sax/xmlreader.py", line
122, in parse
    buffer = file.read(self._bufsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 791,
in read
    return self.file_obj.read(amt)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gzip.py", line 157, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gzipstream.py", line 167, in
_read
    uncompress = self.decompress.flush()
error: Error -5 while decompressing