Question
How do I fix a "Hash Sum mismatch" error when running apt-get update on Ubuntu 16.04?
- Posted on February 22, 2018
- DigitalOceanUbuntu 16.04
Asked by mbigras
Running apt-get update -y fails with the following error message:
root@somehost:~# apt-get update -y
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
...
Ign:25 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
Get:25 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [759 kB]
Err:25 http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
Fetched 25.1 MB in 6s (3,638 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
What does this error mean? Where can I learn more? How do I solve this problem?
Steps to reproduce
curl \
-s \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $(lpass show --notes do_token)" \
-d "{\"name\":\"somehost.com\",\"region\":\"sfo2\",\"size\":\"512mb\",\"image\":\"ubuntu-16-04-x64\",\"ssh_keys\":[\"$(ssh-keygen -E md5 -lf id_rsa.pub | awk '{ gsub(/MD5:/, "", $2); print $2 }')\"]}" \
https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets
# Recover IP Address of host
ssh -i id_rsa root@$IP apt-get update -y
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Did you by chance happen to try to do this again? I’m thinking there was an issue with the mirrors themselves. I had this very exact same problem on multiple droplets just running “sudo apt update” – but the issue seems to have been resolved for me.