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Ubuntu Issue: Clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.5 creates unusable apt due to hash mismatch

See original GitHub issue

Horrible upstream issue with Ubuntu 12.04.5 - if you install it from the iso, apt-get update just doesn’t work!! For example:

W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages  Hash Sum mismatch

This is a very irritating problem and it happens with the canonical (literally) server us.archive.ubuntu.com. Clearly it needs to be fixed on their end. A workaround is to boot the VM and run:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update
sync
sudo shutdown -h now

update via @dino74 : Launchpad bug (and possible diagnosis/fix recommendation) at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1430648

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 9 years ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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janev94commented, Nov 19, 2022

For reproducibility sake - I have compiled mininet from source whenever the apt manager did not have a compatible copy and that seemed to always work thus far.

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lantzcommented, Nov 19, 2022

Although personally I’d like Ubuntu 12 to still be usable for reproducing legacy experiments, I agree that current Mininet does not support Ubuntu 12, so we can close this.

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