Problem upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04

[gschaefr at comcast.net]

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Brian Lunergan <ff809 at ncf.ca>
> Greetings folks:
> 
> I've been trying upgrade to the new edition of Ubuntu but keep running into 
> a problem. The process gets to the last file to download, tries three times 
> then spits out this error before rolling back the action to that point.
> 
> Failed to fetch 
> http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/python2.5/python2.5-dbg_2.5.2-2u
> buntu4_i386.deb 
> Hash Sum mismatch
> 
> Any thoughts? Is there a way around this?
> 
> Regards...
> -- 
> 
> Brian Lunergan
> Nepean, Ontario
> Canada
> 

This may be as useless as it is obvious, but apparently the upgrade
has been able to download all but the last file successfully, then has
read the last file, but found a mismatch between the expected and
calculated checksum. You might try upgrading from a different mirror,
to see if that problem persists. There should be others relatively nearby,
although they'll probably be in the New England area of the USA. :-)