Debian :: Aptitude / Size Mismatch / Weekly Updates To Squeeze
Jun 15, 2010
this is at the root of the problems I'm about to describe: Whenever I try to upgrade my Debian installation, I have repeated "size mismatch" errors that necessitate restarting the upgrade process. Since I'm using Debian Squeeze there are lots of upgrades to be done every week. Today, for instance, because I've not upgraded for a few weeks I have to download over 300MB of files to complete the upgrade. However, because of the size mismatch problem this download may well turn into something between 1GB and 2GB, as I repeatedly have to re-download files that were successfully downloaded in the last failed upgrade. What with my ISP limiting me to 7GB per month, I'm finding that merely keeping Debian up to date is using up most of my allotted bandwidth.
I've tried setting the Aptitude preferences not to "remove unused packages automatically", and not to "remove obsolete package files after downloading package lists", but for some reason I still find that files I downloaded in the last failed upgrade have to be downloaded again (and again, ...) whether anyone either knows how to avoid the package size mismatch problem (I can't change my ISP, which has a monopoly on providing internet to my area), or alternatively knows how to set Aptitude not to forget the packages it has downloaded successfully during each failed upgrade, thereby allowing me to avoid such a huge bandwidth usage on my frequent upgrades.
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Apr 26, 2010
what would happen if aptitude needed to ask me a question, (like which config file to keep for a certian essential program, etc.). I don't think I've come across this problem yet, but I really wouldn't know. I do get the following lines on the screen with aptitude-gtk just about every day when I do squeeze updates and I wonder if it's not related to this same question. Does anyone know if aptitude-gtk is capable of asking you, the administrator, questions about a package that it's updating?
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May 22, 2015
Using Debian Jessie 32 bit and Wheezy 32 bit on 2 separate computers.
For the pass few days, received the following message on both computers when doing a aptitude update or apt-get update results in the following error message:
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jes...ource/Sources: Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jes...i386/Packages: Hash Sum mismatch
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jes...ranslation-en: Hash Sum mismatch
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Jul 9, 2015
Im trying to update the system packages list by doing "aptitude update", but I got a error like this:
W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... 4/Packages: Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
After searching the Web, I saw that many foruns seems to suggest to erase the reference list of packages using the command " rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/" and then run "aptitude update" again. I did that but the error still pops up.
My source.list:
### Debian Jessie
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
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Apr 25, 2010
To:Squeeze penguins who chokes when aptitude (Segmentation fault) Possible reasonThere are several apt packages(.deb). As of Sun Apr 25 09:05:24 UTC 2010. When something screws up, apt-get and aptitude choke. SolutionReinstall one of them by "dpkg -i" At least, I was able to resuscitate my penguin.
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Apr 30, 2010
I've been looking for an aptitude command to search for security updates. This information is being shown when running the screen. So far I reached to this command: aptitude search '~S ~VCANDIDATE ~Asecurity ~U' It looks like producing the correct results, but I still don't quite understand the how the filter (~S) command works.
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Feb 24, 2010
According to this aMSN is included in Debian Squeeze, but when I try to install it with aptitude it can't find it. it can find (and correctly installs) amsn-data. Why, and how do I solve this? I'd rather not install through other means if at all possible.
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Nov 21, 2010
After running "aptitude upgrade" I have been getting a message lately such as "There are x updates available, it is recommended to update your system". But, running aptitude update/upgrade again afterwards, aptitude ignores these supposedly available updates to the system. How can I clear up this situation?. I am using the latest Debian Squeeze distro
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Nov 4, 2010
I have a few Debian Squeeze installations which I perform upgrades on average on weekly basis. Last week one of my laptops, gave me this while all others did not, The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-core (= 1:2.30+1) but 1:2.30+4 is to be installed. gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.30+4) but 1:2.30+1 is installed and it is kept back. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) gnome Keep the following packages at their current version 2)gnome-accessibility [1:2.30+1 (now) 3) gnome-core [1:2.30+1 (now) Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Has anyone encountered this? Is it safe to accept the proposal?
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Sep 1, 2011
It's trying to fix/complete failed installs but keeps encountering the same errors (error message below). I'm running basically Testing, but there are a few Stable and SID packages due to issues with the blasted nVidia legacy drivers. I've swapped out the video board with an ATI board so that is sorted, but now I can't do any updates. Hoping there is some way to manually override apt's determination to try to fix all broken packages whenever I do anything (install, remove, update, etc). A Google search of this error message didn't turn up anything recent. Any thoughts are welcome.
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Jul 11, 2010
I am trying to upgrade an amd64 lenny system to squeeze.I've got a 2.6.32 kernel running, done aptitude update and aptitude install aptitude.When I try "aptitude safe-upgrade", it sits forever resolving dependencies.it seems to search with the resolver counting up more and more open/conflict/ whatever.I stopped it once it got over 100,000)Is it possible to get aptitude to do a safe-upgrade, perhaps using a command line option?
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Feb 21, 2011
When I run df command, the sum of free and used space doesn't tally up to total space. Now I found an explanation in this thread: URL...The amount of "reserved" space seems a little too high as OP of the thread had commented, but may be that's what needed. Now my question is is there a way to change/specify this amount of "reserved" space manually?Also is there a way where you can see the actual disk usage for every mounted partition including the hidden "reserved" space? Because sometimes this mismatch makes the output of df very confusing!
I am attaching output of df, and fdisk from my NFS server. The amount of reserved space seems to be close to 5% of the total partition size.
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Aug 25, 2010
I am running Squeeze AMD64 and install updates every couple of days. I installed the latest batch yesterday and got a "restart system" message, so rebooted. The usual messages scrolled past for a while, then the screen went blank, and that was it. I tried a couple of times with same result. I booted into maintenance mode to try to find the cause of the problem. Looking at /var/log/messages there is some strange activity going on. Unfortunately I can't easily paste the relevant portion of the file into this posting as the network isn't working (I am posting this from a laptop), but roughly what I am seeing is this:
PGD <some stuff>
CPU 0
Modules linked in: <long list of modules>
Pid, 1841, comm: Xorg Not Tainted <some stuff>
<about 20 lines of assorted values>
--[end trace <long hex number>]
and this repeats several times (presumably stopping when I hit the reset button). Sometimes it's CPU 0 and sometimes CPU 1, it mostly involves Xorg in Pid line, and apart from the first instance mostly reports Xorg Tainted.
I could just reinstall but would rather repair as it would be both quicker and more instructive.
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Sep 9, 2010
I am trying to get apt-get to work on a server thats behind a squid proxy server.I have added exections in squid.conf to allow all on [URL]..apt-get can find updates but when it try's to download/install I get
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Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gdebi/gdebi_0.6.0ubuntu2_all.deb Size mismatch
if I
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wget http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gdebi/gdebi_0.6.0ubuntu2_all.deb
it works..
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Jun 19, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed and a few weeks ago I tried upgrading to 11.04 using "Update Manager" BUT I got the following error after a few hours of fetching all the files from internet except for one
Code:Could not download the upgrades
The upgrade has aborted. Please check your Internet connection or installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far are kept.
Failed to fetch [URL]
I thought there's something wrong with the internet connection in spite of that everything else works well.. I tried upgrading in different times in different days, I redid the process again today and I got the same error again. Is there any other way to upgrade or ignore this package?
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Nov 29, 2010
When I try to update my software through update manager, I get this error:
W: Failed to fetch [URL] Size mismatch
As a side note, when I enter Update Manager, it does not show 10.10 as an available update. I have checked my settings. I am quite kurfluddled by all of this.
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May 27, 2010
From aptitude log
[UPGRADE] acpi 1.5-1 -> 1.5-2
[UPGRADE] acpid 1:2.0.4-1 -> 1:2.0.5-1
[UPGRADE] cron 3.0pl1-110 -> 3.0pl1-111
[UPGRADE] initscripts 2.87dsf-10 -> 2.88dsf-5
[UPGRADE] libavcodec52 5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 -> 5:0.5.1+svn20100512-0.1
[UPGRADE] libavformat52 5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 -> 5:0.5.1+svn20100512-0.1
[UPGRADE] libavutil50 5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 -> 5:0.5.1+svn20100512-0.1
[UPGRADE] libcue1 1.3.0-1 -> 1.4.0-1
[UPGRADE] libpostproc51 5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 -> 5:0.5.1+svn20100512-0.1
[UPGRADE] libswscale0 5:0.5.1+svn20100427-0.0 -> 5:0.5.1+svn20100512-0.1
[UPGRADE] sysv-rc 2.87dsf-10 -> 2.88dsf-5
[UPGRADE] sysvinit 2.87dsf-10 -> 2.88dsf-5
[UPGRADE] sysvinit-utils 2.87dsf-10 -> 2.88dsf-5
[UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:2.3.0-2 -> 1:2.3.0-3
I start my box from startx but after getting these updates, x tries to start, I see a mouse and a screen for a second and then it drops out again. I'm running the latest nvidia drivers from nvidia and have tried reinstalling them and they install fine, but no go.
Only thing I can find in xorg.log is:
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Power Button: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech Logitech BT Mini-Receiver: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech Logitech BT Mini-Receiver: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) MLK wireless combo set: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) MLK wireless combo set: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) IR-receiver inside an USB DVB receiver: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
My xorg.conf file is void of anything related to input devices and has been working a treat. So it would seem one of these updates has screwed evdev. I've tried reverting back to earlier versions, but I get the same issues. I was running squeeze with kernel 2.6.32-4-amd64 when all this happened. It was running like a trooper. I've now tried 2.6.32-5-amd64 but still no go.
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Dec 10, 2010
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop fails and has been failing for the last two days, I installed both the lto and the 10.10 newest, starts out OK and runs for about 5 minutes then finishes with many 'failed to fetch [URL] size mismatch issues. This is the first one after many installs over the last two years. Is there something going on with the US servers? On closer examination of running sudo apt-get update it seems to be fine till it hits the pool directory on the server, lucid main and lucid-updates are fine, breaks when it goes past those.
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Mar 16, 2010
I've just installed an ubuntu 9.10 server at my office and configure apache, php and mysql without problems.
Now i need to share some directories in order to wed developers access to the websites files.But when I try to share, ubuntu tries to install samba services, and I keep to get those errors:
"W: Failed to fetch url Size mismatch
W: Failed to fetch url
Size mismatch"
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Dec 21, 2010
Are the 1.3 Wine packages availible at [url] compatible with the Squeeze kernel? What about future updates to the packages there?
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Nov 5, 2010
I'm trying to do is protect the computer against housemates. The standard procedure I do with Lenny:
1. Password protect BIOS.
2. In BIOS, always boot from hard drive. Disable booting from any other device such as USB or CD-ROM.
3. Password protect Grub (v1) using the "password --md5 $1$9MuaA/$5TDLgvmcEiCWNr5W9VaMK1" syntax in my menu.lst file.
With the above precautions in place, [I think] the only way to gain root access to the system is to take the case lid off and proceed to do stuff physically (like set jumpers and/or take out the hard drive). Am I correct? My reasoning for this is, the computer boots -> must boot from HD -> must load Grub -> must go to default menu item since others are protected, and cannot command prompt in Grub without password.
Anyhow, In Squeeze, I was a bit disappointed to find out, after doing a bit of Google-research, that Grub v2 (which is standard on Squeeze now) does not easily support password protecting the Grub menu. Am I correct? Will this issue perhaps be addressed in the Squeeze final release? Is this feature dumb anyways because the Grub password is of no use (i.e. my paragraph above is complete horseradish)?
Another thing I would like to do is change the console font and size back to something more "normal" or "classic", not some crazy tiny font that's only found in totally bleeding edge Linux distrubutions <gasp!>. I found that the Squeeze console font (e.g. when I type Ctrl+Alt+F1) is wicked tiny. I wanna change it to "normal". Grub v2 password and console font config?
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May 17, 2011
My Squeeze installation has the horrific 80x25 line display, and I cannot stand it. I know it can do better, because the grub screen is very tiny. I ran dpkg-reconfigure console-setup, but the offerings there aren't much better. I don't know what happened to the good ol' days of grub when all you had to do was pass vga=791 to the kernel to get a decent console size... but it seems they are gone.
I don't really understand this new v2 grub... I don't know why it was necessary to change how it was configured, when it seemed to work so exquisitely. how I would accomplish the functional equivalent of passing vga=791 (1024x768@75hz) to the kernel in grub
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Mar 7, 2011
I lost my ssh connection to Ubuntu 10.10 server during the configuration update stage of an aptitude full-upgrade for a few month's worth of updates.From the following ps ax list, can anyone tell me how I might reconnect to the screen which is prompting whether to keep the existing samba version, or use the distribution conf version?
Failing that, what's the safest sequence top kill these processes and start again? This time I'll remember to use screen to prevent connection loss.
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Sep 14, 2010
New to Ubuntu not to Unix. I am having issues with aptitude updates. Gives error unable to locate. When I look for the file manually I cannot find it either. It is looking for http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Translation-en_US. Is there a site that list all mirrors that carry the updates? I would like to find manually and adjust source.list file.
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Mar 9, 2011
I've noticed this happening on some servers that I manage. I'll be downloading updates around 300 kb/s - 500 kb/s and then out of nowhere it will drop to about 3 kb/s. It will stay here forever, if I let it. I then have to cancel (Ctrl-C) the updates and restart them. This happens over and over and over until I finally get the full download. Why does this happen?
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Jun 24, 2011
I see that an update to 6.0.2 is scheduled for Sat, June 25, 2011: [URL] will I need to add "squeeze-proposed-updates" to my sources.list for 6.0.2, or will leaving "squeeze-updates" in place as is be sufficient? My current version and sources.list:
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Aug 30, 2010
I need address of ftp server that has the latest .iso of Debian testing (weekly build).unfortunately, cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ is useless to me as it does NOT support ACTIVE FTP.
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May 27, 2011
Setting up mythtv-database (0.24.1-0.0squeeze1) ... Failed to execute SQL: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mythconverg.* TO mythtv@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'mythtv' Access denied for user 'root'@'%' to database 'mythconverg' at -e line 8, <> line 1. dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: mythtv-database
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Aug 18, 2010
I installed Debian Squeeze-testing weekly build today, with CD1 alone. It took 1 Hour 38 minutes to install and configure on my Pentium 4 2.7 Ghz , 1GB ram HP machine. I have some trouble with the installation. Sometimes the desktop just freezes while moving Icons, or opening Xterm. I cannot use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, OR Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys. I have to physically reboot. Why doesn't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace work on GNOME? Is there a IRC chat for Debian Help and what applications does one use on GNOME for IRC chat?
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Mar 12, 2011
apt-get update
W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.ro.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
My source.list
#Debian Testing repo
deb http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.ro.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib[code]....
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