Hi, I've just encountered the same problem, as I tried to update my testing installation:
> root@monica:~# apt-get update > Hit http://ftp.at.debian.org testing InRelease > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main i386 Packages > Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main TranslationIndex > Get:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/main Sources [4,906 kB] > Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US > Hit http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex > Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en > Get:2 http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/main i386 Packages [6,984 kB] > Hit http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex > Hit http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/contrib TranslationIndex > Hit http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/main TranslationIndex > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US > Ign http://ftp.at.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en > Fetched 2 B in 22s (0 B/s) > W: Failed to fetch > bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.at.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources > Hash Sum mismatch > > W: Failed to fetch > bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.at.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages > Hash Sum mismatch > > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. > root@monica:~# I've also tried using ftp.debian.org instead of the Austrian mirror, but the end result was the same. Taking a closer look at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ : > Index of /debian/dists/testing > > [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > [DIR] Parent Directory - > [ ] ChangeLog 05-May-2011 10:25 0 > [ ] ChangeLog.201105032217 03-May-2011 22:17 33K > [ ] ChangeLog.201105041019 05-May-2011 10:25 0 > [ ] ChangeLog.201105042215 04-May-2011 22:15 24K > [ ] ChangeLog.201105051025 05-May-2011 10:25 0 > [ ] Contents-amd64.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-armel.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-i386.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-ia64.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 17M > [ ] Contents-kfreebsd-amd64.gz 06-May-2011 14:21 17M > [ ] Contents-kfreebsd-i386.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 17M > [ ] Contents-mips.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-mipsel.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-powerpc.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-s390.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] Contents-sparc.gz 06-May-2011 14:22 18M > [ ] InRelease 05-May-2011 02:34 117K > [ ] Release 05-May-2011 02:34 116K > [ ] Release.gpg 05-May-2011 02:34 836 > [ ] Release.new 06-May-2011 14:31 331 > [DIR] contrib/ 06-May-2011 14:19 - > [DIR] main/ 06-May-2011 14:22 - > [DIR] non-free/ 06-May-2011 14:41 - > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > > Apache Server at ftp.debian.org Port 80 On closer inspection it seems as if the InRelease file is stale: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Origin: Debian > Label: Debian > Suite: testing > Codename: wheezy > Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 02:34:26 UTC > Valid-Until: Thu, 12 May 2011 02:34:26 UTC > Architectures: amd64 armel i386 ia64 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 mips mipsel > powerpc s390 sparc > Components: main contrib non-free > Description: Debian x.y Testing distribution - Not Released > MD5Sum: > 6b8516a01a9722978cc81b8a55782e8b 18687256 Contents-amd64.gz > 4d639cd983656c1b580ebc8708ba26ea 18509395 Contents-armel.gz > 89af11c1e185fd6957f0ec1b0136f785 18853379 Contents-i386.gz ... > 591014f8fa262fce3617877b44284eca 82 main/binary-armel/Release > 6ac333124e8b99c86ba6b22b74d39982 33527073 main/binary-i386/Packages > 0b5cb20391906af998cf7efbfa291af3 6984520 main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 > 8e26469be42d570552b3e338f389ca3a 2038 > main/binary-i386/Packages.diff/Index > 2ab8bab11fd0391c998e42a647f6cad0 9153050 main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > b5a9e553ee2f50648cd63e3d31603072 81 main/binary-i386/Release > 52dabffea684ed8af0da0352a8a8b41d 32424030 main/binary-ia64/Packages ... The file and it's contents (and the checksums, of course) are from the 5th while the Packages files themselves are from the 6th: > Index of /debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386 > > [ICO] Name Last modified Size Description > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > [DIR] Parent Directory - > [ ] Packages.bz2 06-May-2011 14:08 6.7M > [DIR] Packages.diff/ 06-May-2011 14:25 - > [ ] Packages.gz 06-May-2011 14:08 8.7M > [ ] Release 06-May-2011 14:30 81 > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > > Apache Server at ftp.debian.org Port 80 which would explain the hash mismatches... -- Kurt Bernhard Pruenner --- Haendelstrasse 17 --- 4020 Linz --- Austria np: Kode9 & The Spaceape - Kryon (ft. Flying Lotus) (Black Sun) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
