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[Max Barry <max@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, I got this problem after installing from the Direct Download link
(http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=213463&filename
=ubuntu-eee-8.04.1.iso&99571803) two days ago. Verified MD5sum of
78a15c3d929c438b3ab0ce20b3da7587.

Manual fix as described above worked.

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"apt-get update" failure: hash sum mismatch
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261022
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Status in Ubuntu Eee: Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
A chronic problem affects 8.04.1 RC1 where "apt-get update" and the update-notifier fail to query the network for package updates, immediately after the installation is complete.

Here's a sample of the error returned.

W: Failed to fetch http://www.array.org/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release  Unable to find expected entry  eeepc/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)
[...]
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2  Hash Sum mismatch
[...]
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.