Bug#503694: upgrade-reports: apt-get update gets frequent Hash sum mismatches

[Paul Higgins <paul.higgins@honeywell.com>]

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important


9 times out ten in the last few weeks, when I do the apt-get update,
prior to upgrading, I get messages such as the following:
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W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/source/Sources.bz2
Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
-----------------------
This occurs when I try it again.  If I wait 10 minutes or so, it works
successfully.  I assume this is due to a update being pushed to your
servers.  Why does it fail on the same downloads over such a long period
of time?  I don't think it should fail more that once or twice.

BTW:  I didn't see this happen very often as recently as August.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash