Hi Eric,
Yep, no problem:
Just to help here's a diagram of the initial setup
+-------------+ +----------+ +----------+
+-----------+
|uk.debian.org|<--------|server01 |<-------|server02
|<--------|client01 |
+-------------+ |(approx & | |(approx & |
|(client of |
+-------------------+ |client of | |client of |
|server02) |
|security.debian.org|<--|localhost)| |localhost)| |
|
+-------------------+ +----------+ +----------+
+-----------+
I should also point out that server02 is shared by a number of other
clients, not just
client01.
Is it possible that approx somehow marks a file as pending from
upstream, when in fact
the download has failed, or been interrupted? It could then permanently
believe the file
is not yet available, when it never will be.
Syslog on server02 only thing that looks odd is a few
"utimes: Operation not permitted" on Packages.gz files
When I checked the perms the file is rw for user approx which seems
right to me.
Can fail at any point, sometimes in the download of packages files,
sometimes
in the fetch of the package.dpkg files. It may not be related, but even
when things
are working fairly ok, I do seem to get quite a few
"Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)"
messages in aptitude/apt-get which I don't get if I switch back to
apt-proxy. Each
time it leaves a bunch of connections to it's upstream in the CLOSE_WAIT
state. There
remains, however only one connection in the ESTABLISHED state with a
high value rx q.
If I then repeat the run it will be all or most of the same downloads
that fail.
If I connect apt directly to the upstream, and the upstream is the
remote debian mirror,
that always works fine. Otherwise the same thing happens but not quite
so
regularly, I guess the problem can occur in any of the approx instances
in the chain.
For each instance you take out of the chain the lower the chance of
bumping into a problem.
Different remote? - see above, the debian mirror never fails.
Wget seems to work ok on the files that are getting
"Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer)"
from aptitude/apt-get
which is interesting.
Hope this helps rather than confuses the issue, anything else you'd like
me to try just let me know.
Cheers,
Tim
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