Bug#238560: apt: Intermittent MD5Sum mismatch on download

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 238560 normal
tags 238560 - security
tags 238560 unreproducible
thanks

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:45:42PM -0500, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.23
> Severity: important
> Tags: security sid
> 
> Sometimes, I get an MD5Sum mismatch when trying to install a package
> using apt-get:
> 
> witch:/tmp# apt-get install mozilla-firefox
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   mozilla-firefox
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 10.4MB of archives.
> After unpacking 30.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main mozilla-firefox 0.8-4 [10.4MB]
> Fetched 10.4MB in 32s (316kB/s)
> Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb  MD5Sum mismatch
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
> 
> Comparing the real MD5Sum of the file
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb with the MD5Sum listed in Packages shows that they are identical.
> 
> Thus, there appears to be a bug witin apt-get itself.

It seems unlikely that apt is not calculating the md5sum correctly (I have
the same version of mozilla-firefox successfully downloaded and installed
here).  Try switching from ftp to http and see if that makes a difference.

-- 
 - mdz