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apt reports wrong hashes

Bug #1401487 reported by Thomas Mayer
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Bug Description

Hi, ocassionally, I'm getting wrong hashes when doing an apt-get update:

W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages Hash-Summe stimmt nicht überein

W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages Hash-Summe stimmt nicht überein

W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages Hash-Summe stimmt nicht überein

How can this occur? I don't think there are TCP/IP errors for my connection, at least in the past I did not have them.

Is there a technical reason for that on the mirror server (e.g. during an update of the files)? Can you check for corruption/compromization on the server? I'm really concerned about this.

Or do I have to think about a "man-in-the-middle" problem considering my connection/router?

As far as I can say, the problem appears and disappers from time to time. I cannot reproduce it relyably.

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

This happens from time to time when a mirror is out of sync.

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affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
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