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Same problem again occurs with 8.10 rc Intrepid release candidate.

Lots of files persistently fail to install with apt-get complaining
about "Hash Sum mismatch". Some package lists fail also, with the same
error reported.

Observation: This problem seems to afflict larger files in particular.

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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.