apt-get: Error: Timeout was reached

[Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de>]

Hi,

I see often the error:
	Error: Timeout was reached  
during an apt-get update.

Any idea what could cause this and how to debug it?

The entire configuration is shown below.

root@master:~# apt-get -v
apt 1.4.8 (amd64)
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg:  Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
 Pkg:  Debian APT solver interface (Priority -1000)
 Pkg:  Debian APT planner interface (Priority -1000)
 S.L: 'deb' Debian binary tree
 S.L: 'deb-src' Debian source tree
 Idx: Debian Source Index
 Idx: Debian Package Index
 Idx: Debian Translation Index
 Idx: Debian dpkg status file
 Idx: Debian deb file
 Idx: Debian dsc file
 Idx: Debian control file
 Idx: EDSP scenario file
 Idx: EIPP scenario file
root@master:~# apt-get update
Ign:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease                        
Hit:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch Release                          
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease
Error: Timeout was reached                   
Reading package lists... Done
root@master:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# 

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 
20171209-12:10]/ stretch main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 
20171209-12:10]/ stretch main

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib 
non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main 
contrib non-free

# stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-
free
root@master:~# ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
total 0
root@master:~#

Many thanks
Rainer
-- 
Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/