Re: ftp.uk.debian.org hash check failures

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:14:57AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> I've been seeing the following error for the last 24 hours:
> 
>         W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  Hash Sum mismatch
>         
>         W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/contrib/source/Sources.bz2  Hash Sum mismatch
>         
>         E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
>         
> The Packages.bz2 file appears to have been truncated (ends half way
> though the definition of ydpdict) and the Sources.bz2 returns a 404
> error.

We had a couple of rsync failures recently:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil  34071 Jul 10 10:57 ftpsync.log.6.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil   5947 Jul 10 22:27 ftpsync.log.5.gz <--- failed
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil  23594 Jul 11 10:26 ftpsync.log.4.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil  11197 Jul 11 22:39 ftpsync.log.3.gz <--- failed
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil  26691 Jul 13 16:24 ftpsync.log.2.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil  57150 Jul 13 16:45 ftpsync.log.1.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phil phil 275454 Jul 13 23:33 ftpsync.log.0

I'd imagine it's down to that.

rsyncs from syncproxy.eu.debian.org have been fairly unreliable
recently -- I'm assuming that the hardware issue has been resolved,
as I'm no longer seeing significant packet loss.

Could the fact that I'm running rsync 3.0.2 be a factor?

Cheers, Phil.
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