Ubuntu
software-center package

purchased software download fails with and breaks apt proxy

Bug #647212 reported by Kamal Mostafa
74
This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Nominated for Precise by TJ
Maverick
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Natty
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
software-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Committed
Undecided
Unassigned
Nominated for Precise by TJ
Maverick
Invalid
High
Unassigned
Ubuntu maverick-updates
Natty
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

I used Software Center -> Get Software -> For Purchase and bought "Ricks Wallpapers" for $1.00 USD. The purchase process went fine, but the install failed, and has now left my apt cache in a bad state.

After the purchase process, Software Center spun its wheels for a very long time (several minutes) until finally a popup error window delivered this error:

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/ri
cks-wallpaper/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz Proxy CONNECT
 aborted
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used
 instead.

'sudo apt-get update' also fails with the same error message.

The problem apparently occurs because of my apt-cache-ng proxy setup (which works fine otherwise). I have a one line file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy:
   Acquire::http { Proxy "http://my.proxy.host:3142"; };

If I disable my apt proxy by commenting out the Acquire line, then I am able to install "Ricks Wallpapers" from Software Center. And 'apt-get update' then yields only "Ign https://...ricks-wallpaper..." (no error). But then even after having successfully installed the package, re-enabling my proxy Acquire line causes 'apt-get update' to fail with the same error above.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.34~username~mjgbacklight1-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 24 16:09:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

Revision history for this message
Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Part of the problem seems to be that we should use port 80 of keyserver.ubuntu.com, I commtied a fix for this. The rest needs a bit of debugging love, I will do that tomorrow.

Kate Stewart (kate.stewart)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-10.10 → maverick-updates
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Natty):
milestone: maverick-updates → none
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Maverick):
milestone: none → maverick-updates
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Confirmed → New
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Natty):
importance: High → Undecided
Barbara (barbara-tali)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Fix Committed
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RapierTG (rapier) wrote :

I am still getting this in Oneiric.

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JC Hulce (soaringsky) wrote :

This bug affects Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat. Maverick has reached end-of-life and is no longer supported, so I am closing the bugtask for Maverick. Please upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu.
More information here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2012-April/000158.html

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Fix Committed → Invalid
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Florian Huber (itshorty) wrote :

I'm getting this on precise.

Tried with free tiberiumalliances and local apt-cacher-ng:

sudo apt-get update
[...]
Err https://private-ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
  Proxy CONNECT aborted
Err https://private-ppa.launchpad.net precise/main i386 Packages
  Proxy CONNECT aborted
[...]

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/tiberiumalliances/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/tiberiumalliances/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

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Jim Salter (jrssnet) wrote :

I also have this issue on Precise.

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/bastion/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/bastion/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/limbo/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/limbo/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/swordandsworcery/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/swordandsworcery/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/monster-rpg2/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/monster-rpg2/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/7wonders/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/7wonders/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/mm3/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/mm3/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/lonesurvivor/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/lonesurvivor/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/swordandsworcery/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/swordandsworcery/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages Proxy CONNECT aborted

no longer affects: software-center
Revision history for this message
Jim Salter (jrssnet) wrote :

Please note that this is not just a problem with Software Center; apt-get update also fails from the command line when using apt-cacher ng and using PPAs from the Ubuntu commerical packages.

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Jim Salter (jrssnet) wrote :

Note: there is a workaround for this issue.

You can bypass apt-cacher-ng for certain hosts by using lines like the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf or creating a configuration file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

Acquire::HTTP::Proxy::private-ppa.launchpad.net "DIRECT";

TJ (tj)
Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
TJ (tj) wrote :

Aspects of this issue are caused by a truncation bug in apt's netrc auth.conf handling code ( bug #1008289).

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt-cacher-ng - 0.7.7-1

---------------
apt-cacher-ng (0.7.7-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream releasee
    + pass-through mode for allowed hosts (LP: #647212)
    + possible fixes of file descriptor objects expiration (closes: #677983)

 -- Eduard Bloch <email address hidden> Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:50:16 +0200

Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Re-opening the acng task.
I think a fix would need to ship the necessary configuration to make it work by default, e.g.:

    PassThroughPattern: private-ppa\.launchpad\.net:443$

Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Won't Fix
status: Won't Fix → Triaged
Revision history for this message
pi-rho (pi-rho) wrote :

A new feature has been added in upstream apt-cacher-ng 0.7.7-1 to address this issue.

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pi-rho (pi-rho) wrote :

Also, the fix has been released in quantal:

Changes:
 apt-cacher-ng (0.7.7-1ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from Debian. Remaining changes:
     - debian/apt-cacher-ng.logrotate:
       Comment out the "su" lines as this requires logrotate 3.8.1 which isn't
       in Ubuntu yet.
     - drop conflict on logrotate < 3.8.1
 .
 apt-cacher-ng (0.7.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream releasee
     + pass-through mode for allowed hosts (LP: #647212)
     + possible fixes of file descriptor objects expiration (closes: #677983)

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu Natty):
status: New → Confirmed
pi-rho (pi-rho)
Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
pi-rho (pi-rho)
Changed in lucid-backports:
status: New → Invalid
no longer affects: lucid-backports
Revision history for this message
pi-rho (pi-rho) wrote :

Natty is now end-of-life. This bug has been fixed in supported releases (quantal, precise, backport requested for lucid).

Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Sam Ruby (rubys) wrote :

I'm seeing the problem with Ubuntu quantal/12.10.

Cross-reference: Ubuntu Pay Support #27504.

The workaround specified in comment #8 works for me.

Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)
tags: added: u1-support
Revision history for this message
Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper) wrote :

Is there any reason *not* to include the workaround in comment 8, by default, in Software Center? It seems like that config shouldn't break anything, if I understand correctly, and it would prevent issues which come up when proxies are installed... If that is correct, it seems like an easy and obvious improvement.

Joshua Hoover (joshuahoover)
tags: added: u1-by-support u1-support-escalated
removed: u1-support
dino99 (9d9)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu Natty):
status: Fix Committed → Invalid
tags: removed: maverick
pi-rho (pi-rho)
Changed in apt-cacher-ng (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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