[Bug 815895] Re: W: Bizarre Error - File size is not what the server reported

[David Kalnischkies]

The latest incarnation of this in debian is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632271
(your referred bugreport is just a report to change the message, which was done).

This bug is hopefully finally fixed in the version currently sitting in
debian experimental. It would be splendid if you could try this version
in a vm/chroot or alike and report back as it is untested so far (there
are not many users around which have packages >2 GB or even >4 GB handy…
and i am not one of those)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #632271
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632271

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Title:
  W: Bizarre Error - File size is not what the server reported

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a private, GPG-signed repository that I use to distribute pre-
  packaged software to our servers and workstations.  Use of this
  private repository has been without a hitch for years until now:
  Attempting to distribute a very large (2.3GB) package file, apt-fails
  with the following error message:

  ----------
  # apt-get install <package>
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    <package>
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
  Need to get 2,224 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 4,416 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://<url>/ stable/main <package> amd64 4 [2,224 MB]
  Fetched 1 B in 38s (0 B/s)               
  Failed to fetch http://[<url-deleted>]/./pool/<package>_4_amd64.deb  Size mismatch
  W: Bizarre Error - File size is not what the server reported 2224455066 18446744071639039386
  E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
  ----------

  The correct file size of the package file is: 2224455066

  The entry for this package in the repository's Packages file:
  ----------
  Package: <package>
  Version: 4
  Architecture: amd64
  Maintainer: Michael Peek <peek at nimbios.org>
  Installed-Size: 4312636
  Filename: ./pool/<package>_4_amd64.deb
  Size: 2224455066
  MD5sum: e0daf5d8a6588210f06ddd155a0119ea
  SHA1: a47121319aa4262ebf6fc9286820a9b78067cc3a
  SHA256: e38a7f4d5ccce10bd51ea07bc3515c0b35bf57eb80caeea5b19ecdd27f701758
  Section: non-free/admin
  Priority: extra
  Homepage: <url>
  Description: <description>
   <long description>
  ----------

  Note that the size listed in the Packages entry is correct, and
  corresponds to the first number reported by the "Bizarre Error"
  warning returned by apt-get.  But the second number,
  18446744071639039386, is nowhere to be found.

  The package has been re-built and the repository package files re-
  generated several times, to no avail.  This bug may be related to this
  one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623137 (Apr 17,
  2011).

  NOTE: This bug has been reported before, and reportedly fixed, as bugs
  #122294 (2007) and #176675 (2009).  Since this bug is clearly still
  happening and is referenced by an upstream Debian bug report I thought
  I would merely reference the other bugs here and open a new report.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jul 25 09:15:24 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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