libera/#devuan/ Monday, 2024-10-28

systemdleteso... should I be telling my sources.list files to use http: instead?   Sorry, not too familiar with the guts of this.00:14
systemdleteI switched back to http: and did the apt update again.  Now I am seeing errors with a variety of different repo servers.00:17
systemdleteon second thought, no.00:17
systemdleteall the errors are to 147.78.194.2200:18
systemdlete(the addresses flash by so fast, I thought I was seeing different addresses.  But scrolling back, I see they were all hitting one.)00:18
systemdleteI just checked the current ntp time here and it matches time.gov (off by .031 sec)00:20
systemdleteoddly, it starts out and seems to succeed on the first 5 or so "Gets"00:20
systemdletethen it is a stream of Ign's00:20
systemdleterrq, are you able to "apt update" without a problem there?00:21
systemdletevery odd.  Worked fine just now.00:23
systemdlete???00:23
systemdletenow, on one daedalus system, it is now running fine (it wasn't earlier).00:30
systemdletebut on another daedalus and a chimaera, it is failing.00:31
systemdleteand there is no cacher in the way now00:31
onefang147.78.194.22 is mirror.ungleich.ch, and they have an odd CNAME thing going on with their DNS.  All three apt-panopticons are not having any trouble with it.  Sounds like the problem might be closer to your end.00:42
systemdletelike what?  I can update cleanly from certain systems and not from others.00:43
onefangSo the problem sounds like it's with those others.00:43
golinuxPlease see: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages00:44
systemdletewell, I was having a problem with a daedalus a while ago, but not anymore.  It just magically started working again without problems00:44
golinux"Devuan has a network of package repository mirrors in place. The recommended default mirror is deb.devuan.org, via http not https. Or, a specific mirror from the list can be accessed using the corresponding BaseURL. Country Codes can also be used e.g."00:44
golinuxIt has always been thus in Devuan.00:44
systemdleteYes, that's how they are configured currently.00:44
systemdleteall http: now.00:44
systemdleteand no cacher to muddy the waters.00:45
systemdleteI have an MX system here, and it did not seem to have any issues throughout this.  Of course, it uses the debian repos and its own, so that's a variable.00:46
onefangThink I need to add more history to apt-panopticon, to catch these "it's working fine now, but not an hour ago when I was asleep and couldn't look".00:46
systemdleteBut I'll keep an eye on that system to see if problems erupt there in the future.00:46
onefangBut I'm still in weekend mode today, no more poking at mirrors for me today unless it's urgent, back to the music making.00:48
onefangThough this weekend the music making resulted in a programming rabbit hole I'm almost done with.  lol00:49
rrqsystemdlete: on Sunday/Monday there is the major weekly repository update which always causes a bit of turmoil in the mirroring system. All mirrors engage in largish updates and each have a period of inconcistency with respect to each others if not within themselves.01:04
rrqeg. you might get a Packages file from an updated server and then try to donwload the package from another, not yet updated server01:05
rrqthus, a good ruel of thumb is to don't update on Sunday/Monday01:05
systemdleteyeah, that's the sort of thing I was wondering about... batch sort of updates.  When I worked in I.T., it was common that late weekend nights (or early morning like 3am) were times when batch and other CPU hogs would be run.01:06
systemdleteit's just rather odd that one system here is performing ok (now, that is) and others are all coughing up phlem01:07
systemdleteI'm looking at debug options to try to trace through all of this.01:07
systemdleteone thing I am noticing is that on the systems that fail, they seem to be failing to download the InRelease file.  (why don't all clients have this problem?)  I can consistently continue to run apt update on the systems where it works and consistently see it fail on the ones where it doesnt03:30
systemdleteA little more inspection reveals that apt update is getting a timeout.  I confirmed this by running wget on the same url.03:30
systemdlete(I mean the same url as one which failed...)03:31
systemdleteI even went so far as to compare the /etc/apt/* areas on each system; they are now identical (except for 20listchanges and 90rkhunter)03:32
* onefang adds a TODO item for apt-panopticon - check the source code of the various apt implementations, see if they all have the same timeout, switch my timeout tests to using that. There's already a TODO to actually track weekly timeout stats.04:03
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