Bug#499379: Hash Sum Mismatch on apt-get update
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14+b1
Severity: normal
Recently we get a lot of Hash Sum mismatch errors when doing apt-get update:
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Hash Sum
mismatch
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz Hash
Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
This happens on various machines. They are all behind a squid, but we don't have any other issues
with the proxy, so I don't expect the problem to be there.
To fix it I have to rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* and redo the update. The problem gets worse with
aptitude, because that fails silently. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451137.
Maybe this bug is related to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450510.
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.8-1 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
-- no debconf information
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