Bug#364272: apt: recent difficxulty in updateing, "Remote end closed connection" and MD5 sum errors
* Eamonn Hamilton:
> I've been trying to get my system to reliably perform an apt-get update
> and upgrade for the last three or four weeks. Symptoms seem to be that
> it'll get to the last few K of a file, and then time out, the server
> closes the connection or there's a checksum error.
This could be a faulty along the network path to the Debian mirror
(the TCP checksum does not guard against periodic bit errors when the
period is an integer multiple of 16).
Could you provide a traceroute to the Debian mirror you use and a copy
of a file whose MD5 hash does not match?
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