Bug#238560: apt: Intermittent MD5Sum mismatch on download
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.23
Severity: important
Tags: security sid
Sometimes, I get an MD5Sum mismatch when trying to install a package
using apt-get:
witch:/tmp# apt-get install mozilla-firefox
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mozilla-firefox
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.4MB of archives.
After unpacking 30.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.debian.org unstable/main mozilla-firefox 0.8-4 [10.4MB]
Fetched 10.4MB in 32s (316kB/s)
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb MD5Sum mismatch
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Comparing the real MD5Sum of the file
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox_0.8-4_i386.deb with the MD5Sum listed in Packages shows that they are identical.
Thus, there appears to be a bug witin apt-get itself.
I have seen this before on two of my systems and a quick search on the
internet for the string "MD5Sum mismatch" shows that other people seem
to have similar problems.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#deb ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
#deb-src ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mirror.csit.fsu.edu/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
#deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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