Re: problems encountered while performing "apt-get upgrade"

[James Curbo <jcurbo@acm.org>]

I was getting similar errors from ftp.de.debian.org as well.  I switched
to the bytekeeper repository in Belgium and have encountered no errors
ever since.

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:58 +0100, Monty Lilburn wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> Today I decided to run an "apt-get upgrade" for the first time since 
> setting up AMD64-debian a couple of months ago.
> 
> Out of the 161 packages needed to be upgraded, 10 failed because of 
> "MD5Sum mismatch" errors.  I haven't come across this type of error before 
> and I was hoping someone on this list may be able to help me rectify the 
> situation.  (I did perform an "apt-get update" immediately before the 
> "apt-get upgrade")
> 
> My sources.list:
> 
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian sarge contrib main non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian sarge contrib main non-free
> 
> 
> Captured output from "apt-get upgrade" command:
> 
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages have been kept back:
>     ia32-libs mailutils-pop3d
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>     libapache-mod-php4 libapache2-mod-php4 libarchive-zip-perl
>     libconvert-asn1-perl php4 php4-cli php4-common php4-imap php4-mysql php4-pear
> 10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> Need to get 164kB/5571kB of archives.
> After unpacking 311kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main php4-imap 4:4.3.10-13 [37.7kB]
> Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main libarchive-zip-perl 1.14-1 [85.1kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main libconvert-asn1-perl 0.18-1 [41.5kB]
> Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/p/php4/php4-imap_4.3.10-13_amd64.deb  MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/liba/libarchive-zip-perl/libarchive-zip-perl_1.14-1_all.deb  MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-amd64/debian/pool/main/libc/libconvert-asn1-perl/libconvert-asn1-perl_0.18-1_all.deb  MD5Sum mismatch
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
> Fetched 164kB in 2s (55.1kB/s)
> 
> 
> 
> I tried running "apt-get --fix-missing upgrade" as it suggested and still 
> no joy.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>     Monty
> 
>