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Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:48 am
by MintHawk
Hello, everyone.
Running 23.6 KDE and when I go to Discover to update packages, it gives the following message:
E:
http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo bookworm/main i386 Contents (deb) is not (yet) available (File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 129.21.171.72 80]
Hashes of expected file:
- Filesize:1279511 [weak]
- SHA256:da30489318d7800117f2fb1ecec1b8541c650e148b324ae6b803295b7f3459a2
- SHA1:6bfb36aea02ca56718c80fcdfdb751bcc6fac89a [weak]
- MD5Sum:6dd73b2e8bae1d6d49f7865909fd50b9 [weak]
Release file created at: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:31:10 +0000)
What's going on?
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:54 am
by Eadwine Rose
It tells you: File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress?
That is likely what is going on.
Wait a while or change mirrors.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:04 am
by BitterTruth
I'm getting this too. I've tried the manchester uk repo and the berkley repo. Same issue
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Err:7 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/mx-packages/mx/repo bookworm/main i386 Contents (deb)
File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 169.229.200.70 443]
Hashes of expected file:
- Filesize:1279511 [weak]
- SHA256:da30489318d7800117f2fb1ecec1b8541c650e148b324ae6b803295b7f3459a2
- SHA1:6bfb36aea02ca56718c80fcdfdb751bcc6fac89a [weak]
- MD5Sum:6dd73b2e8bae1d6d49f7865909fd50b9 [weak]
Release file created at: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:31:10 +0000
Fetched 25.3 kB in 1s (18.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/mx-packages/mx/repo/dists/bookworm/main/Contents-i386.gz File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 169.229.200.70 443]
Hashes of expected file:
- Filesize:1279511 [weak]
- SHA256:da30489318d7800117f2fb1ecec1b8541c650e148b324ae6b803295b7f3459a2
- SHA1:6bfb36aea02ca56718c80fcdfdb751bcc6fac89a [weak]
- MD5Sum:6dd73b2e8bae1d6d49f7865909fd50b9 [weak]
Release file created at: Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:31:10 +0000
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:05 am
by MintHawk
The same thing happened with my regular mirror (Greece).
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:08 am
by Eadwine Rose
The SLC one is working normally at least.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:24 am
by siamhie
MintHawk wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:48 am
Hello, everyone.
Running 23.6 KDE and when I go to Discover to update packages, it gives the following message:
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E: http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/repo bookworm/main i386 Contents (deb) is not (yet) available
(File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress?
What's going on?
BitterTruth wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:04 am
I'm getting this too. I've tried the manchester uk repo and the berkley repo. Same issue
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Err:7 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/mx-packages/mx/repo bookworm/main i386 Contents (deb)
File has unexpected size (884736 != 1279511). Mirror sync in progress?
@MintHawk @BitterTruth Wait until your mirror has updated or change mirrors with MX Repo Manager.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 11:07 am
by BV206
Before you change repo mirrors check here:
https://rsync-mxlinux.org/mirmon/packages.html
Some of them don't update frequently.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 11:14 am
by oops
Yes, good to know this link. Thk
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 11:24 am
by MintHawk
@siamhie : The Salt Lake City repo works fine.
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 11:49 am
by MintHawk
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 12:20 pm
by exponentialmatrix
i had a problem of this sort once with bookworm, it could be an apt bug. Try deleting the relevant file in
it's the cache of the repo lists
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2025 12:42 pm
by siamhie
exponentialmatrix wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2025 12:20 pm
i had a problem of this sort once with bookworm, it could be an apt bug. Try deleting the relevant file in
it's the cache of the repo lists
It's a mirror issue shown by the error message. Just wait until the repo you use has been updated.
Don't go deleting apt lists all willy-nilly.
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Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 169.229.200.70 443]
Re: Repos problem...?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 4:54 am
by exponentialmatrix
in my case it got permanently screwed up and i couldn't use apt any more. I suspect, they yanked something in the debian repo and i did an update at the wrong time and apt wasn't tested for that.
That folder is the cache( the content of the lists), the config is in etc (the urls of the lists). It's safe deleting stuff in the cache, it will simply redownload the list.