diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/Utils.java b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/Utils.java
index d44231436..52a8b5441 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/Utils.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/Utils.java
@@ -417,13 +417,29 @@ public final class Utils {
 
             byte[] mdbytes = md.digest();
             return toHexString(mdbytes).toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH);
-        } catch (IOException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            // The annoyance (potentially) caused by miscellaneous filesystem corruption results in
+            // F-Droid constantly popping up crash reports when F-Droid isn't even open. As such this
+            // exception-message-parsing-and-throwing-a-new-ignorable-exception-hackery is probably
+            // warranted. See https://www.gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/855 for more detail.
+            if (e.getMessage().contains("read failed: EIO (I/O error)")) {
+                throw new PotentialFilesystemCorruptionException(e);
+            }
+
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
+        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
         } finally {
             closeQuietly(fis);
         }
     }
 
+    public static class PotentialFilesystemCorruptionException extends IllegalArgumentException {
+        public PotentialFilesystemCorruptionException(IOException e) {
+            super(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Computes the base 16 representation of the byte array argument.
      *
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/data/InstalledAppProviderService.java b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/data/InstalledAppProviderService.java
index 6dcc83e33..54bf64d6f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/data/InstalledAppProviderService.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/fdroid/fdroid/data/InstalledAppProviderService.java
@@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ public class InstalledAppProviderService extends IntentService {
                         }
 
                         insertAppIntoDb(this, packageInfo, hashType, hash);
+                    } catch (Utils.PotentialFilesystemCorruptionException e) {
+                        Log.e(TAG, "Encountered potential filesystem corruption, or other unknown " +
+                                "problem when calculating hash of " + apk.getAbsolutePath() + ". " +
+                                "It is unlikely F-Droid can do anything about this, and this " +
+                                "likely happened in the background. As such, we will continue without " +
+                                "interrupting the user by asking them to send a crash report.");
+                        return;
                     } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                         Utils.debugLog(TAG, e.getMessage());
                         ACRA.getErrorReporter().handleException(e, false);