Why is apt-get failing to update with "not a bzip2 file" errors?

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Published on 2012-06-22T04:11:53Z Indexed on 2012/06/25 3:22 UTC
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Yesterday my server still OK, but today after try to sudo apt-get update i got this error: update process.

I try: sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf And got This.Then try update again, but it's not solving my problem then show May be still same error.

I checked my internet connection try ping google.com, get result :

PING google.com (74.125.235.40) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 136.198.117.254: icmp_seq=1 Redirect Network(New nexthop: fw1.jvc-jein.co.id (136.198.117.6))
64 bytes from sin01s05-in-f8.1e100.net (74.125.235.40): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=20.6 ms
64 bytes from sin01s05-in-f8.1e100.net (74.125.235.40): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=18.2 ms
64 bytes from sin01s05-in-f8.1e100.net (74.125.235.40): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=33.0 ms
64 bytes from sin01s05-in-f8.1e100.net (74.125.235.40): icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=30.0 ms
64 bytes from sin01s05-in-f8.1e100.net (74.125.235.40): icmp_req=5 ttl=53 time=28.1 ms

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