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

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

reassign 503694 mirrors
tnx

Paul Higgins wrote:
> 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:
> ----------------------
> 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
> 
> 
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