Public bug reported: 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 ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Affects: apt (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Medium Assignee: Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) Status: In Progress ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Xenial) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Xenial) Assignee: (unassigned) => Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625667 Title: Trusty: apt does not try next mirror if index file download fails with mirror:// source To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1625667/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
