Patch verified through this sequence: Add "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-proposed multiverse restricted main universe" to /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update apt-get install apt=1.0.1ubuntu2.15 apt-get upgrade <- Accept all from maintainer After that sequence, the apt-get update works without failure, even when one of the mirrors is partly broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625667 Title: Trusty: apt does not try next mirror if index file download fails with mirror:// source Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Bug description: [SRU justification] This fix is needed to allow correct archive mirroring functionality. [Impact] Without this fix, apt-get update and other apt commands requiring Package file access may fail when there are remote transient errors due to archive availability. [Fix] Use std::npos instead of 0 to test presence of "Translation" in ShortDesc. [Test Case] 1) Setup three containers (archive1, archive2, archive3) with a reprepro configuration mirroring the ubuntu restricted archive (to save on space and time to replicate). 2) Add an apache webserver serving the reprepro archive over http on each container 3) Add the following mirrors.txt file to one of the webserver (archive1): $ cat /var/www/html/mirrors.txt http://archive1/ubuntu/ http://archive2/ubuntu/ http://archive3/ubuntu/ 4) Add a client container. Add the IP adresses of the archive[1-3] containers to /etc/hosts. Alias the archive1 address to archive.ubuntu.com similar to the following : $ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.0.4.182 archive1 mirrors.ubuntu.com 10.0.4.127 archive2 10.0.4.193 archive3 5) Add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list, commenting all other entries : $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list #deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main #deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main #deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe #deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates universe deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt trusty restricted 6) Run $ apt-get -oDebug::Acquire::mirror=true update The log should display for the Packages file : MirrorMethod::Fetch() Failure to get http://10.0.4.193/ubuntu//dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages Err http://10.0.4.193/ubuntu/ trusty/restricted amd64 Packages With the fix you will see : MirrorMethod::Fetch() Failure to get http://10.0.4.193/ubuntu//dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz TryNextMirror: http://10.0.4.127/ubuntu//dists/trusty/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz [Regression] None expected. Worse that can happen is a retry when none was done previously. [Original description of the problem] When using the mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt functionality on Trusty, if the download of the index file fails, apt will not retry on another archive listed in mirrors.txt and will fail. Running the following on Trusty leads to the following result : sudo apt-get update -qq W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-security/universe/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-security/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-security/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/universe/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] W: Failed to fetch mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/dists/trusty-updates/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [Mirror: http://ftp.availo.se/ubuntu/] E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. The same configuration works correctly on Xenial To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1625667/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
