Bug#573791: apt-get update in Debian 5.04 (lenny) failing since updates of 2010-03-11

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

> Please note this log is taken just now using:
> debian 5.04 netinst business card image

I have just tried with the same image (for i386), using ftp.nl.d.o as 
mirror without any problems. My log looks similar to you, except that I 
get good signatures...

From my log:
Mar 16 17:41:08 choose-mirror[6970]: INFO: suite/codename set to: 
stable/lenny
[...]
Mar 16 16:42:18 main-menu[1044]: INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: gpgv: 
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: Signature made Fri Jan 29 23:18:35 2010 UTC 
using RSA key ID 55BE302B
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: gpgv: 
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: Good signature from "Debian Archive Automatic 
Signing Key (5.0/lenny) <ftpmaster@debian.org>"
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: 
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: gpgv: 
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: Signature made Fri Jan 29 23:25:01 2010 UTC 
using DSA key ID F42584E6
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: gpgv: 
Mar 16 16:42:21 debootstrap: Good signature from "Lenny Stable Release Key 
<debian-release@lists.debian.org>"


I wonder if somehow the files are getting corrupted during download.

Can you copy the following two files from the installer after a debootstrap 
failure and send them:
/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_lenny_Release
/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_lenny_Release.gpg

The first one should be zipped again.