Bug#823339: apt fails from the last three days saying Clearsigned file isn't valid
in-line :-
On 03/05/2016, David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
>
>
> The bad InRelease files should be in partial/, perhaps their content can
> tell you what this something is. Looks for me like a proxy (maybe from
> your ISP) running amok.
<snipped>
Surprisingly, now on another run it worked. But on the one it had
failed, I did take a look
at the directory and I had the Release Files with the FAILED written
in front of them.
I'm sorry I didn't save them. On a successful run, partial is empty as
I just found out now.
> Do you get something reasonable if you browse to
> 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease'?
> If you download it with wget/curl?
When you are saying browse to the URL you have shared, you mean
through the browser, right. If you are asking that, then sure did that
and it took me to page where all the Inrelease files with checksum
are there.
Wget was also successful :-
[$] wget http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease
[3:59:26]
--2016-05-04 03:59:29--
http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease
Resolving httpredir.debian.org (httpredir.debian.org)... 5.153.231.35,
128.31.0.66
Connecting to httpredir.debian.org
(httpredir.debian.org)|5.153.231.35|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp/debian/dists/testing/InRelease
[following]
--2016-05-04 03:59:30--
http://debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp/debian/dists/testing/InRelease
Resolving debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp (debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp)...
133.242.8.20
Connecting to debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp
(debian-mirror.sakura.ne.jp)|133.242.8.20|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 219854 (215K)
Saving to: ‘InRelease’
InRelease
100%[===================================================================>]
214.70K 113KB/s in 1.9s
2016-05-04 03:59:33 (113 KB/s) - ‘InRelease’ saved [219854/219854]
So yeah, that worked.
>
> In any case, I don't see much potential for improvement from the apt
> side here as "garbage in, garbage out", but perhaps if you can shine
> some light on what is going on there might be something so I am not
> closing downright… but I am damn close.
>
I am guessing you should close it, I would try to remember if and when
the next time
I encounter it and try to get you that info. from
/var/lib/apt/lists/partial . It was news to me that partial had SUID
bit.
Thank you for replying so quickly.
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies
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