Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:20 +0200, "Sylvain Le Gall" <gildor@debian.org>
wrote:
> In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
> >> >
> >>
> >> You can try using "curl http://.../Packages..."; from the machine
> >> hosting approx, even if it sounds weird it can give you hints on what is
> >> happening (I say curl because approx use curl). If the problem is at the
> >> download level, there is probably a problem with curl from this specific
> >> computer. The same problem can disappear using apt/wget/iceweasel/...
> >> from the same machine.
> >
> > Sorry, this got put on the back burner for a couple
> > of days. Things seem to have worked themselves out
> > on the server itself (lenny). I tried running curl
> > on the cl. That worked, so I tried aptitude update
> > with sources.list pointing to the localhost approx
> > proxy. Don't understand why, but it is working.
> >
> > The problem persists from a remote client (a squeeze box),
> > though. Packages file downloads variously to between 4 &
> > 6 per cent, then the download stalls for a minute or two.
> > The partially downloaded file then disappears and returns
> > as a zero length file which then downloads to between 4 & 6 per cent ...
> >
> >>
> >> Another point is to look at the log in /var/log/* to see what happens
> >> when the problem appears. You will probably find there some valuable
> >> information (error messages...).
> >
> > And you were right:
> >
> > approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception:
> > Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0)
> >
> > appears over and over again in /var/log/syslog when the remote
> > clients chokes and starts the download over. Googling that only
> > turned up one bug report that seems to my naive eye to not
> > be a related problem, and anyway, was fixed in approx 3.3.0
> > which is what I am running.
> >
> > Does the nethttpd error mean anything to anyone?
>
> Nethttpd server is probably not complete enough to answer specific
> option used by aptitude...
>
> Can you try a simple "apt-get update"
Same result, gets to about 4 or 6 % then tanks.
Noticed a new message in the logs:
approx: Removing
debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-i386/Packages.3038.588984013 (size:
421116)
approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception:
Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0)
> or "curl
> http://host:port/.../Packages"; from the squeeze box (where host/port
> match approx host/port).
Same thing, except I used wget instead of curl.
It also seems that things are not so rosy on the
server itself. I ran "aptitude build-dep approx"
to try and solve the other part of my problem
(approx-import missing from v3.3.0). One of the
things it wanted to install is ocaml-interp. At
about 33% downloaded this tanks with the same
type of message:
approx: Removing
debian/pool/main/o/ocaml/ocaml-interp_3.10.2-3_amd64.3018.199742079
(size: 400459)
approx: Nethttpd: Uncaught exception:
Nethttpd_types.Standard_response(-358247754, 0, 0)
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