Bug#1106279: autopkgtest: timeouts when apt hits IGN InRelease during 'updating testbed package index' phase

[Paul Gevers]

Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.49
Severity: normal

Hi,



Paul

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/armel/x/xpa/60715059/log.gz


  0s autopkgtest [21:27:32]: version 5.49

  8s autopkgtest [21:27:40]: testbed dpkg architecture: armel
  8s autopkgtest [21:27:40]: testbed apt version: 3.0.1
  8s autopkgtest [21:27:40]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ test bed setup
  8s autopkgtest [21:27:40]: testbed release detected to be: None
  8s autopkgtest [21:27:40]: updating testbed package index (apt update)
  9s auto-apt-proxy: INFO: looking for available APT cache
 10s auto-apt-proxy: INFO: no proxy detected
 10s auto-apt-proxy: INFO: using cache: no proxy detected (ttl = 59s)
 10s Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease [178 kB]
 10s Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease

I'm currently seeing several failures on ci.d.n that look the same, see below. It seems that if apt fails to download the InRelease file, it takes long enough to eventually time out after 3000 seconds. I'm wondering why we don't see apt retry the download and fail quicker (maybe it should still tmpfail, but I'd say it should do so faster. 0s autopkgtest [21:27:32]: starting date and time: 2025-05-16 21:27:32+0000 0s autopkgtest [21:27:32]: host ci-worker-armel-01; command line: /usr/bin/autopkgtest --no-built-binaries '--setup-commands=echo '"'"'xpa testing/armel'"'"' > /var/tmp/debci.pkg 2>&1 || true' '--setup-commands=echo '"'"'Acquire::Retries "10";'"'"' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/75retry 2>&1 || true' --timeout=30600 --user debci --apt-upgrade --output-dir /tmp/debci-worker-60715059-EfkPyXDwvG/autopkgtest-incoming/testing/armel/x/xpa/60715059 xpa -- lxc --sudo --name ci-136-05b487e6 autopkgtest-testing-armel 10s Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease [53.1 kB] 3010s autopkgtest [22:17:42]: ERROR: testbed failure: timed out on command "env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND=none APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=none /bin/sh -ec "$@" 3>&2 2>&1 run_apt_command /usr/bin/eatmydata apt-get --quiet --assume-yes -o=APT::Status-Fd=3 -o=APT::Install-Recommends=false -o=Dpkg::Options::=--force-confnew -o=Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true update" (kind: install)

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