• Registered: 2011-02-26
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Topic: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

I wanted to upgrade to Sid so that I could have some newer versions of software working and generally just live on the edge, and I am getting a strange error in Apt when I try to update my sources.

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I changed the us mirror to de, and I got the same exact error.  I tried doing "sudo apt-get clean" thinking it might be something cached that is screwing it up, but that didn't help.

Here is what my sources.list file is like:

## CRUNCHBANG
## Compatible with Debian Squeeze, but use at your own risk.
deb http://packages.crunchbanglinux.org/statler statler main

## DEBIAN
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

## DEBIAN SECURITY
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

## DEBIAN BACKPORTS
#deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://liquorix.net/debian sid main future

I put it in off-topic for a few reasons, mostly because I imagine upgrading to Sid isn't exactly supported, lol, but also because I did it on my desktop yesterday and it did work.  Now when I want to do it on my laptop, it's giving me a hash sum mismatch.  I had to reinstall Crunchbang on my desktop because I royally screwed up Nouveau on it, and it's giving me the same hash sum mismatch there as well.

Anyone else try this?  Anyone else having an issue?

Laptop:  HP DV2Z - AMD Turion X2 Neo (1.6GHz dualcore) - Radeon HD3410 - 2GB DDR2 - 32GB SSD - Broadcom 4322
Desktop:  Biostar TA890GXE - AMD Phenom II X6 1050T - 4GB DDR3 - 640GB WD Black + 2TB Hitachi Deskstar - nVidia GTX460
  • hinto
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  • Registered: 2010-12-08
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Re: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

I changed my repos to sid, and use smxi to manage all the updates.
I don't know if it will help, but it makes things easier, like selecting different mirrors, and dist-upgrades, etc.
I haven't updated this week.
-Hinto

"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive."
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  • Registered: 2011-02-26
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Re: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

hinto wrote:

I changed my repos to sid, and use smxi to manage all the updates.
I don't know if it will help, but it makes things easier, like selecting different mirrors, and dist-upgrades, etc.
I haven't updated this week.
-Hinto

Thanks for the tip.  When it didn't work manually, I tried smxi and it still failed.  Hash sum mismatch.  I tried de, us, and ca.  Something may be going on I guess.  I did read somewhere that if your packages are a different version than what's on the mirror, apt will not let you update to that repository... although I could have misunderstood what was going on, because that seems rather odd.

I'll try again tomorrow.  Weird that it worked in the past and won't now.  For my desktop, it was even right after a fresh install.  My laptop's been working with Crunchbang for about a week now.

Laptop:  HP DV2Z - AMD Turion X2 Neo (1.6GHz dualcore) - Radeon HD3410 - 2GB DDR2 - 32GB SSD - Broadcom 4322
Desktop:  Biostar TA890GXE - AMD Phenom II X6 1050T - 4GB DDR3 - 640GB WD Black + 2TB Hitachi Deskstar - nVidia GTX460
  • Registered: 2011-02-26
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Re: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

So i just checked again and it worked.   There are still things i just dont get about Debian lol

Laptop:  HP DV2Z - AMD Turion X2 Neo (1.6GHz dualcore) - Radeon HD3410 - 2GB DDR2 - 32GB SSD - Broadcom 4322
Desktop:  Biostar TA890GXE - AMD Phenom II X6 1050T - 4GB DDR3 - 640GB WD Black + 2TB Hitachi Deskstar - nVidia GTX460
  • Registered: 2009-12-11
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Re: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

It must have been something at their end as I had exactly the same experience as the OP:

yesterday: hash sum error.

today: fine.

Last edited by zengrapefruit (2011-03-03 13:03:36)

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Re: Tried to upgrade to Sid just now, didn't work :-(

One of the cool things about smxi is that it will list warnings and possible fixes in the repos before a dist-upgrade.
-Hinto

"When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive."
-Robert A. Heinlein