[Bug 1316262] Re: 3rd party sources block OS updates.

Wed Jun 4 15:16:35 UTC 2014

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  3rd party sources block OS updates.

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Google appear to have started doing GeoLocation on IPv6, and hence I
  discovered that some failure modes of 3rd party software sources which
  are automatically added by google when using Google Talk can cause
  updates to cease completely.

  The graphical update tool reports that there are no updates
  available,.. infact there were more than 30.... I get this at the
  command line:-

  root at trinity:/# apt-get update
  Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
  ---- SNIP ---                                                                                      
  Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [58.5 kB]                                                                  
  Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable InRelease [1,540 B]                                                                                                             
  15% [3 InRelease gpgv 1,540 B] [Connecting to gb.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1360:8c01::18)] [2 Release 6,381 B/58.5 kB 11%] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for hSIgn http://dl.google.com stable InRelease                                                                                                                         
  E: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable InRelease: Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)                        
  root at trinity:/#

  The content of the file in question can be seen below:-

  root at trinity:/# more /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_InRelease
  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
  <html>
  <head><title>Google - Product Unavailable</title>
  <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  <style type="text/css">

  body {
  	font-family: arial,sans-serif;
  	color: #333333;
  	margin:10px;
  	margin-right:20px;
  }

  table#header {
  	margin-bottom:10px;
  }

  h1 {
  	margin-top:8px;
  	font-size:16px;
  	border-bottom:1px solid #999;
  	padding-bottom:3px;
  }

  td#content, td#content td {
  	font-size:13px;
  }

  #footer {
  	font-size:13px;
  	color:#666;
  	border-top:1px solid #ccc;
  	padding-top:12px;
  	margin-top:20px;
  }
  </style>

  </head>
  <body>

  <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="header">
  <tr>
  	<td style="padding-right:8px;"><a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/google_sm.gif" width="143" height="59" border="0" al
  t="Google"></a></td>
  	<td width="100%">
  	<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
      <tr>
      	<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><h1>This product is not available in your country</h1></td>
      </tr>
      </table>	
  	</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  	<td> </td>
      <td id="content" valign="top">

  	<p style="padding:10px 0px;">Thanks for your interest, but the product that you're trying to download is not available in your country.</p>

  	<div id="footer">©2006 Google - <a href="http://www.google.com">Home</a> - <a href="http://www.google.com/about.html">About Google</a></div>
  	</td>
  </tr>
  </table>

  </body>
  </html>
  root at trinity:/# 

  I imagine a great number of people have installed Google Talk plugins and if this results in them never again getting software/security updates due to an error in Google's geo-location then that should be considered a serious issue, obviously other 3rd party sources could cause this issue.

  It seems that failed 3rd party sources should be handled
  gracefully....   BTW, I am in England.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon May  5 19:27:19 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-07 (87 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140207)
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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