apt-get update fails

NoOp glgxg at mfire.com
Wed May 16 03:55:19 UTC 2007


On 05/15/2007 08:17 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> On 05/15/2007 07:27 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>>   
>>> debian wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:17 -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> In the last few days I am seeing the following errors when attempting 
>>>>> "apt-get update":
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For a AMD64 installation:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Failed to fetch 
>>>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  
>>>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>>>> Failed to fetch 
>>>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  
>>>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>>>>> ones used instead.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For a X86 installation:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Failed to fetch 
>>>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
>>>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>>>> Failed to fetch 
>>>>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  
>>>>> MD5Sum mismatch
>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
>>>>> ones used instead.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else seeing it?  Any fix?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Avi
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> apt-get works great with me
>>>>
>>>> heres what i type:
>>>> sudo apt-get update
>>>>
>>>> works just fine
>>>> --cj
>>>>
>>>>       
>> You might want to try again or try a different archive location.
>> Sometimes the archive locations get screwed up - particularly when there
>> are updates available. BTW: what do you get if you download the file via
>> http? For
>> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty-security/main/binary-amd64/
>> I get:
>> $ md5sum *.bz2
>> 0b94a05e11d154bc9b76c887962b862e  Packages.bz2
>>   
> I have been trying for couple of days now with the same error.  The strange thing is that I am getting the same error on two different machine, one using Feisty amd64 and another Feisty i386. I have been running Edgy for a while before on one of the machines and I had no problem until I upgraded to Feisty. The other machine (the AMD64 one) is a fresh installation.
> 
> When I download the file via http I get the same md5sum as you did.
> 
> Are there other Ubuntu security repositories? How do I find them?
> 
> Avi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Can you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list ?






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