Bug#624122: Hash Sum mismatch

[jidanni@jidanni.org]

Package: apt
Version: 0.8.14.1

Could you please fix this soon.

It happens about 30% of the time when I do apt-get update.


W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
exit value 100

Yes, all one needs to do is wait half an hour and try again.

But until that time, apt does not even use the old one:

All there are are

  /var/lib/apt/lists/partial:
  total used in directory 44377 available 266186
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root    28672 Apr 26 02:48 .
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root    24576 Apr 26 02:48 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root   478116 Apr 25 16:08 ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root  2552826 Apr 25 16:08 ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-i386_Packages.decomp.FAILED
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root  7245599 Apr 25 16:08 ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root 34927506 Apr 25 16:08 ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages.decomp.FAILED

and ../ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages.FAILED