Hash Sum mismatch (Jan 2019)

[kamleshrao]

Using VSCode since more than a year. Suddenly today (10-Jan-2019 18:50 IST) when I run Ubuntu package updates, I am getting "Hash sum mismatch" error.

Get:20 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable/main amd64 Packages [87.2 kB]
Err:20 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable/main amd64 Packages
Hash Sum mismatch
Fetched 218 kB in 7s (30.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I have seen the same issue earlier 3-4 times (reported in 2017 and 2018)in this GitHub issue list, which is closed. Hope Microsoft Team ensure that once the issue is closed, it does not repeat again.

Environment Details:
Version: 1.30.2
Date: 2019-01-07T22:49:48.319Z
Electron: 2.0.12
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Linux x64 4.15.0-43-generic

Steps to Reproduce:

1. sudo apt-get update

[RMacfarlane]

This looks like a duplicate of #66238, let's track this there