Package: apt-cacher Version: 1.5.3 Severity: important Hi,
This is the same issue I sent you some private mail about earlier, but it does seem to be resolving itself into a repeatable bug, so I'm opening a report. There would seem to be some relationship to one or more existing reports, but as the symptoms are again different, I'll keep this separate and let you decide the lines to merge on. Here is an example: The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-doc gkdebconf libcairo-perl libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl 0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 2574kB of archives. After unpacking 8290kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz unstable/main debconf-doc 1.5.0 [157kB] Err http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz unstable/main debconf-doc 1.5.0 Connection timed out Get:2 http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz unstable/main gkdebconf 1.2.62 [110kB] ... <snip more ok downloads> Get:9 http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz unstable/main libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.16-1 [117kB] Fetched 2417kB in 5m14s (7692B/s) Failed to fetch http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz:8000/http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debconf/debconf-doc_1.5.0_all.deb Connection timed out E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? Ok, looks like a 'normal' network error at this stage... Try it again: The following NEW packages will be installed: debconf-doc gkdebconf libcairo-perl libglib-perl libgnome2-canvas-perl libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgtk2-perl libterm-readline-gnu-perl 0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 157kB/2574kB of archives. After unpacking 8290kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://apt-cache.shelbyville.oz unstable/main debconf-doc 1.5.0 [157kB] 0% [1 debconf-doc 165] This time it hangs solid at that point until it times out again. Note that apt does not know the size of the file it is expecting in the progess meter. Subsequent retries consistently stop at exactly this point. In my cache now is: -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 228 2006-05-10 12:11 ./headers/debconf-doc_1.5.0_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 165 2006-05-10 12:11 ./packages/debconf-doc_1.5.0_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 72 2006-05-10 12:11 ./private/debconf-doc_1.5.0_all.deb.complete Removing those files clears the problem, and a subsequent retry will then have the normal chance of success. Variations on the theme: 1. If the user doing the download interrupts it themselves (eg. ^C, or any stronger signal), then similar results occur for the package if the cache was scoring a 'miss' for it and in the process of retrieving it. 2. The download does not hang 'short', but instead overruns, and reports (sometimes far) greater data transferred than the actual size of the package. I suspect that apt-cacher is actually downloading other packages during that time, but streams it all to apt as the same 'unknown size' package. In every case, manually finding and removing the offending files from the cache clears the problem. But that is a fairly major usability stopper in any case where the end users aren't also admin, hence the choice of 'important' status. Other than this, it seems to be working quite nicely. Thanks very much! Ron -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages apt-cacher depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.3-2 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction apt-cacher recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
