On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:03:07 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2026, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote:n > > Package: bugs.debian.org > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > for reference, #1125030 is the bug report on apt-listbugs that led to > > this report. > > > > reportbug/querybts are also affected by this. Querybts sometimes > > reports "there's no such bug" but succeeds on a second attempt, due to > > this problem. > > Hi all, thanks for reporting this.
Hi Don, thanks for your prompt investigation!
>
> I looked at the logs, and as near as I can tell, there has been exactly
> one 503 error to soap.cgi since January 10th across all three hosts.
>
> I suspect that what's happening here is we're triggering a gateway
> timeout and the fastly gateway is returning a 503 while the soap.cgi
> goes on to complete the request. This probably only fails when you
> happen to hit an underlying host which is already under high load (or
> a request that takes longer to load).
>
> Can you show the timing of the requests that fail in addition to the
> logs?
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Is the following enough?
$ date -R -u ; apt-listbugs list apt ; date -R -u
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:06:16 +0000
Retrieving bug reports... 0% Fail
E: HTTP GET failed (503: All backends failed or unhealthy)
Retry downloading bug information? [Y/n] n
Continue the installation anyway? [y/N]
E: Exiting with error
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:06:20 +0000
$ date -R -u ; apt-listbugs list apt ; date -R -u
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:11:08 +0000
Retrieving bug reports... 0% Fail
E: HTTP GET failed (503: Service Unavailable)
Retry downloading bug information? [Y/n] n
Continue the installation anyway? [y/N]
E: Exiting with error
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:11:11 +0000
It is almost always failing today...
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