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Hash and size mismatch with http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main amd64

Asked by Romy Greenfield

I have a student who is trying to run apt-get update and running into errors

Ubuntu config on her machine:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

She is getting the following error:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/alessandro-strada/ppa/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
  File has unexpected size (1343 != 1118). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:1118 [weak]
   - SHA256:d36fc206b1928d13d762d6ed9a0ed0cd1dcccb025d423efc25b9e660a45db3ff
   - SHA1:b41e1915a1b3d8caaf5492ff4d153cddc1c9462e [weak]
   - MD5Sum:5dfc938c95774e97205f8fa4cd626171 [weak]
  Release file created at: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:07:43 +0000

I have tried to research a workaround for similar errors but most say to just wait and it will fix itself. However, I saw a similar bug being raised https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1975865

Please could someone advise on a workaround of if this needs to be fixed somehow?

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Chris Guiver (guiverc) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Bug reporting is mostly about finding & fixing problems thus preventing future users from hitting the same bug.

I suspect a Support site would be more appropriate, eg. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu. You can also find help with your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

I suggest you contact the PPA maintainer. They are directly responsible for their own PPA

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