hash sum mismatch when trying to upgrade

[Michael P. Varre]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of NoOp
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:37 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: hash sum mismatch when trying to upgrade
> 
> On 07/14/2008 07:47 AM, Michael P. Varre wrote:
> 
> > Getting a bunch of these when trying to run do-release-upgrade -d.
> > Last week when I did a test run of the update on a dev machine it was
> > working fine, now nothing.  I am getting the same results on all my
> > machines that I'm trying it on now.  I've tried to wipe out
> > /var/lib/apt/lists/ like some lists had suggested, I've tried normal
> > updates, I've tried cleaning and -fix-missing to no avail.  Been
> > trying for the last 24 hours.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is this a problem with the mirrors or did something magically go
> > wrong on all my 6.06 ubuntu machines?
> 
> I've found that there always seem to be problems with the mirrors at
> one
> time or another. Find a local one that is fast & reliable and try that.
[Michael P. Varre] 


I've tried main, us, en, ar, fr, and one or two others and I get the same
results from all of them, and again its happening on all my 6.06 machines.
I've been googling for other mirror choices and stumbling upon them.  Is
there an updated list somewhere?  Is the CD download mirror list the same
for the repositories?



> However, I recommend doing the upgrade directly from the Alternate CD.
> Burn the current 8.04.1 Alternate CD and (assumes you have the Gnome
> desktop installed on the machine) with the desktop open, put in the CD.
> You will then get a prompt to upgrade distribution, select that and
> when
> it asks you if you want to include network upgrades/files (can't recall
> the exact wording) say no. It will then do the upgrade directly from
> the
> CD. After it is complete you can then reconnect and do a standard sudo
> apt-get upgrade/sudo apt-get update to complete any remaining updates.
> There are not very many on 8.04.1 at the moment, so it's pretty
> complete.
> 
[Michael P. Varre] 

Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately my systems are LTS Server installs and
I do not use Gnome or any GUI on any of them.  From what I've read, the
upgrade via CD is only available under Gnome, right?



> Further, your dapper (6.06) machines don't tie up your internet
> connections while they are upgrading from the CD. For me this is a
> _big_
> issue as the internet upgrades have no throttle, and soak up as much
> bandwith as the line allows. Meaning that if you have a single DSL
> line,
> the line is pretty well hosed until the online upgrade is complete.
[Michael P. Varre] 


Moot point for me as these are all in a datacenter and I can eat all I want
:)

> 
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/
> Alternate CD.
> 
> 
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