[Touch-packages] [Bug 2003851] Re: occasional hanging 'apt-get update' from daily cronjob since Jammy 22.04

2024-03-25 Thread Adam Saponara
Following up, `Acquire::Retries=0` seems to be avoiding the bug in prod, which strengthens my suspicion that it's related to retries. As for the actual bug, when apt is hanging, I notice that the work queue has items in it, but they have not been delegated to a worker. There is a condition that

[Touch-packages] [Bug 2003851] Re: occasional hanging 'apt-get update' from daily cronjob since Jammy 22.04

2024-03-21 Thread Adam Saponara
Hello, also affected by this. I'm able to reproduce the bug using Walter's mock server. I suspect it may be related to the retry code that kicks in when a transient error is encountered (like a 503). Retries are enabled by default since apt 2.3.2, which seems to fit the regression window people