On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:44:16 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jan 2026, Francesco Poli wrote:n [...] > Given that these requests are only taking 3-4 seconds, it's definitely > not hitting a timeout. I'm not seeing any corresponding log records with > a 503 error on the backend (there are multiple 200 responses in this > time which look like they could correspond). > > If you can set a specific user-agent string, I can check to see whether > I'm seeing the exact request that you sent in the backend logs. [The > observability of the current debbugs instance is pretty archaic, so it's > hard to connect an exact request to an exact set of logs.]
If I haven't messed things up, I should have set the user-agent to
"invernomuto (hopefully unique agent) (2.9.0, ruby 3.3.8 (2025-04-09))"
and I performed the following try:
$ date -R -u ; apt-listbugs list apt ; date -R -u
Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:00:32 +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 22:00:35 +0000
I hope this may help in pinpointing the issue.
>
> Thanks!
Thanks a lot to you for the time you are spending in investigating the
issue!
Note to self: in order to modify the user-agent string, I temporarily
changed line 145
of
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/soap4r-ruby1.9-2.0.5/lib/soap/streamHandler.rb
(package 'ruby-soap4r') from
@client = Client.new(nil, "SOAP4R/#{ Version }")
to
@client = Client.new(nil, "invernomuto (hopefully unique agent)")
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