Bug#942478: apt User-Agent causes mirrors to drop connections
Package: apt
Version: 1.8.2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Attempting to install Debian10.1/AMD64 and/or updating/upgrading
existing installations.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
apt update
* What was the outcome of this action?
ERR:1 <repository URI> stable InRelease
Connection failed [IP:<mirror IP address>]
* What outcome did you expect instead?
The usual 'apt update' response.
What works around it: I added file /etc/apt/apt.sources.d/99useragent
and configured it to send the same User-Agent string as my Firefox web
browser. I've six machines that suffered this, and all respond well to
the workaround.
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-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
# buster-updates
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
# Debian multimedia
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free
# Backports
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debian-archive-keyring 2019.1
ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4
ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20190110
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.8.11-7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii gnupg2 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii powermgmt-base 1.34
ii synaptic 0.84.6
-- no debconf information
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