Bug#465572: apt: http acquire method misbehaves on 404 from non-keepalive Server

[Marcel Moreaux <marcelm@luon.net>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:13:49AM -0400, Anthony L. Awtrey wrote:
> Mar 16 11:58:28 in-target: E: Method http has died unexpectedly!

I too experienced this problem when installing Debian from a local
lighttpd mirror (installing from a local apache mirror was fine).

Setting server.max-keep-alive-requests in lighttpd to 1024 (the default
is 128) made the problem go away for me. This suggests that apt-http
doesn't like the http server closing the connection after a number of
requests when it requested keep-alive.

HTH,



Marcel Moreaux