Bug#669328: had been losing my mind on the translation-en.bz2 bit.
Hi all,
I have been fighting on this for last few days now, didn't know the
existence of this bug or wouldn't have lost my mind/sleep over it.
This is what happens/ed to me quite a bit (giving a bit of dirty
workaround I guess) :-
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en
Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch
gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources
Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
Now I went to /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ and saw this :-
$ ls
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en
ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED
I then removed all of them and made the index anew by removing the partial list
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial$sudo rm *
Then doing the update again as a regular joe :-
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial$ sudo aptitude update
It took me quite some time for the whole to re-generate the whole
index as can be seen from the last line when updating the index.
Fetched 44.1 MB in 46min 53s (15.7 kB/s)
Now the index is good. But it takes a long time even if you are doing
this once a day. I don't know why the whole index has/had to be
regenerated. I am sure people have a different/better way of working
around this issue which I don't know.
But still wanted to document this in case you are suffering from
this.... like me.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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