hash sum mismatch when trying to upgrade

Michael P. Varre mvarre at kishmish.com
Tue Jul 15 12:50:05 UTC 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Kim Goldenberg
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:22 PM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: hash sum mismatch when trying to upgrade
> 
> Michael P. Varre wrote:
> > Anyone have any thoughts?  This is killing me that I cant get this
> resolved.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> P.
> > Varre
> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:48 AM
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: hash sum mismatch when trying to upgrade
> >
> > Hello everyone.  I'm trying to upgrade from 6.06 to 8.04 and I keep
> getting:
> >
> > http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-
> backports/multiverse/s
> > ource/Sources.bz2
> > Hash Sum mismatch
> > , E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or
> > old ones used instead.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> If you have medibuntu.org in your sources list, it appears to have
> disappeared. I wasn't sure it was a problem here at work, or a generic
> problem, so I was going to wait until I got home. I do know it was
> working last night (US-EDT), as the same updates worked at home.
[Michael P. Varre] 

Thanks for the reply Kim.  No I have all the standard mirrors that LTS
Server comes with.  Its been 3 days and still the same result.


> 
> Kim
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