germinate-update-metapackage crashed with http.client.IncompleteRead in _safe_read(): IncompleteRead(349704 bytes read, 18909224 more expected)

[Sean Davis]

While attempting to update xubuntu-meta

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: germinate 2.42
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.3.0-7.7-generic 6.3.5
Uname: Linux 6.3.0-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Sep 2 06:00:12 2023
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/germinate-update-metapackage
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-09-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20230902)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.11
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/germinate-update-metapackage --vcs
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.11, Python 3.11.5, python3-minimal, 3.11.4-5
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/germinate-update-metapackage', '--vcs']
PythonDetails: N/A
SourcePackage: germinate
Title: germinate-update-metapackage crashed with http.client.IncompleteRead in _safe_read(): IncompleteRead(349704 bytes read, 18909224 more expected)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This seems to be a valid failure and I'm not sure there's much point in adding nice error handling to a very low-level developer tool, it would just hide the exception class