Apt-get reports excessively long time to fetch package

Bug #484627 reported by Tarthen Brown
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

This happened as I installed gmountiso while my internet router was halfway through booting back up. It gave me [connecting to ftp.iinet.net.au...] for about twenty seconds, then found the connection and installed the package. However, it said it took 136 years to fetch the package. I somehow don't think that's right.

Here's the full terminal output of the operation:

tarthen@Central9:~$ sudo apt-get install gmountiso
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  handbrake-common python-eggtrayicon
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gmountiso
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.6kB of archives.
After this operation, 180kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/universe gmountiso 0.4-0ubuntu3 [16.6kB]
Fetched 16.6kB in 49710d 6h 28min 11s (0B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gmountiso.
(Reading database ... 179289 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gmountiso (from .../gmountiso_0.4-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up gmountiso (0.4-0ubuntu3) ...

tarthen@Central9:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 18 14:41:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apt 0.7.23.1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: apt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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Tarthen Brown (tarthen) wrote :
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Tarthen Brown (tarthen) wrote :

After a quick google, a games forum brings this up from a bug in a games server:
"For the curious, 49710 is derived from 2^32 (Largest 32-bit integer), or 4,294,967,296, divided by 86400 (60*60*24 - the number of seconds in a day). So, if for whatever reason the game thinks that you've played a character more recently than the time you're looking at the login screen (Probably due to small client/server time differences), it wraps the time around to the highest number it can use (49710)."

Think apt-get is thinking I was in the future :O ?

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) wrote :

Is there a way that you can reproduce this behaviour reliably?

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for apt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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