IMHO the problem is most likely related to apt trying to use the wrong checksum to verify the origin of the packages. Or that not all of the provided checksums work (md5, sha1 or sha256). As I wrote before, I think ugrading debian is the way forward.
We think we see what’s causing this issue – it’s proven tricky to fix though. I just wanted to follow up to say we haven’t forgotten about it, and Joe is working on this
For me worked to add alternative repository - apt-get update then upgrade, but at the last I was download
the Webmin deb package at http://www.webmin.com/download.html directly with wget and install it.
When installing virtualmin on debian testing(stretch) this error occurs again:
E: Failed to fetch http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/debian/dists/virtualmin-universal/main/binary-amd64/webmin-virtual-server-theme_9.0-2_all.deb Hash Sum mismatch
I’ve checked the checksums manually, only sha512 checksum matches.
P.S. installation on debian stable(jessie) completes fine.
As of this morning, I am unable to run apt-get update. It doesn’t specifically say “hash sum error” but it seems as though a related repository as the one discussed in this topic is moved or corrupted: …
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Fetched 4,162 kB in 10min 3s (6,892 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu/dists/virtualmin-universal/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
The update process ended right there without the usual summary of files updated/remain/etc. It looks like it aborted.
Also, for the last couple of weeks the update hangs for a looooong time at a couple of points, and as it sits there, the last thing printed on the right side of the line is an IPV6 address. Until that started happening, updating was always very quick without significant pauses. This also suggests a problem with the repository resource, or at least my ability to access it here.
