Bug#810365: [apt] Temporary failure resolving xxxx even when the network is up and running

[BogDan Vatra <bogdan@kdab.com>]

On Friday 08 January 2016 20:21:10 BogDan Vatra wrote:
> On Friday 08 January 2016 17:16:27 Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:16:00PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 05:28:02PM +0200, Bogdan Vatra wrote:
> > > > Package: apt
> > > > Version: 1.1.10
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > 
> > > > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > > > The problem happens on an chrooted arm64 image on Android.
> > > > 
> > > > Commands log:
> > > > 
> > > > root@localhost:~# apt update
> > > > Err:1 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
> > > > 
> > > >   Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org'
> > > > 
> > > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > > Building dependency tree
> > > > Reading state information... Done
> > > > All packages are up to date.
> > > > W: Failed to fetch
> > > > http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/InRelease
> > > > Temporary failure resolving 'httpredir.debian.org'
> > > > W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> > > > ones
> > > > used instead.
> > > 
> > > Probably /etc/resolv.conf is not readable by _apt?
> > 
> > _apt being a username used by the fetching process.
> 
> Well it is world readable:
> 
> root@localhost:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43 Jan  8 14:57 /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> I think the problem is that apt is running under _apt user which on android
> it doesn't network permissions.
> 
> Is it possible to run at as root?
> 

I "fixed" it by changing _apt UID to 0 :), but IMHO it is not the best 
solution... 

Yours,
BogDan.