synaptic error occurred during the signature verification

[Ash Goodman]

Binary package hint: synaptic

W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 2EBC26B60C5A2783 Medibuntu Packaging Team <email address hidden>

W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used.GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-security Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <email address hidden>

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.medibuntu.org/dists/karmic/Release

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/Release

W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch

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

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 15 09:43:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: synaptic 0.62.7ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Ash Goodman (ash-ashdezign)]

I didnt tick the "this affects security' option but I think maybe I should have as one of the things affected is "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/karmic-security/Release"

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.