Public bug reported:
apt-get doesn't validate servers, and/or has far to long timeout.
Should seriously do some logic if server, index or other core files is
unreachable.
E.g.:
1 ~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-common
2 Reading package lists...
3 Building dependency tree...
4 Reading state information...
5 The following extra packages will be installed:
6 autopoint
7 The following NEW packages will be installed:
8 autopoint gnome-common
9 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
10 Need to get 621 kB of archives.
11 After this operation, 883 kB of additional disk space will be used.
12 Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
13 WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
14 autopoint gnome-common
15 Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
16 ^CExit code: 130
Warning of line 13 is presumably because auth. can't be downloaded.
Going to line 16 - here it hangs "forever".
As there obviously is other mirrors - these are two bad and confusing
faults.
1 $ apt-get source gnome-terminal
2 Reading package lists... Done
3 Building dependency tree
4 Reading state information... Done
5 NOTICE: 'gnome-terminal' packaging is maintained in the 'Bzr' version
control system at:
6 http://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu
7 Please use:
8 bzr branch
http://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu
9 to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
10 Need to get 1,893 kB of source archives.
11 0% [Connecting to no.archive.ubuntu.com (130.239.18.138)]
12 ...
13 0% [Waiting for headers]
Hangs on line 11, if you are lucky it enters line 13. Here is a complete
halt.
And: why does it say "Please use: bzr branch http://code.launchpad.net
/~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu" when it is a git repo at
git://git.gnome.org/gnome-terminal?
Further (not a bug per se, but still) - Why does it say
"no.archive.ubuntu.com" when it is a Swedish server at the university of
Umeå?
$ dig no.archive.ubuntu.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> no.archive.ubuntu.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21573
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;no.archive.ubuntu.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
no.archive.ubuntu.com. 141 IN CNAME ftp.acc.umu.se.
ftp.acc.umu.se. 141 IN A 130.239.18.138
ftp.acc.umu.se. 141 IN A 130.239.18.137
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
umu.se. 52338 IN NS sunic.sunet.se.
umu.se. 52338 IN NS ns1.umu.se.
umu.se. 52338 IN NS dns.norrnod.se.
umu.se. 52338 IN NS ns2.umu.se.
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Jan 26 05:46:56 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 187
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apt apt-get mirrors
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apt-get fails to check status of mirrors
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