Hi all, I have been fighting on this for last few days now, didn't know the existence of this bug or wouldn't have lost my mind/sleep over it.
This is what happens/ed to me quite a bit (giving a bit of dirty workaround I guess) :- W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en Hash Sum mismatch W: Failed to fetch gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources Hash Sum mismatch E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Now I went to /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ and saw this :- $ ls ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_experimental_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_non-free_source_Sources.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.decomp.FAILED ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en.decomp.FAILED I then removed all of them and made the index anew by removing the partial list /var/lib/apt/lists/partial$sudo rm * Then doing the update again as a regular joe :- /var/lib/apt/lists/partial$ sudo aptitude update It took me quite some time for the whole to re-generate the whole index as can be seen from the last line when updating the index. Fetched 44.1 MB in 46min 53s (15.7 kB/s) Now the index is good. But it takes a long time even if you are doing this once a day. I don't know why the whole index has/had to be regenerated. I am sure people have a different/better way of working around this issue which I don't know. But still wanted to document this in case you are suffering from this.... like me. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org