Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:

> My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors:
>
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
> MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz  
> MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/source/Sources.gz  
> MD5Sum mismatch
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org 
> etch/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org 
> etch/main Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) 
> - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
> ones used instead.

I'm replying to myself because I believe I fixed this problem on my 
own:  I did a little research and found that the repository information 
that apt-get uses is found in /etc/apt/apt.sources.  I changed my debian 
mirror from http://http.us.debian.org to ftp://ftp.debian.org and this 
fixed my problem entirely.  (I got the list of mirrors from 
debian.org).  This leads me to believe that there may be something wrong 
with http://http.us.debian.org.  (By the way, I experienced the same 
errors with http://ftp.us.debian.org).  Should I report this somewhere?  
Thanks.

Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque