aptdaemon ignores system wide proxy settings

[Olaf Zaplinski]

language-selector-gnome ignores system wide proxy settings => it is unusable when your only HTTP connection is via proxy server; this is true in many companies => 11.04 is great at home and unusable at work

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

language-selector does not do any downloading by itself, but just uses aptdaemon.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

please append the file /etc/environment and the output of the command "apt-config dump"

[Sven Kreienbrock (vinterkind)]

Hi all,

Any progress here ?

Same problem here, I'm behind a companies proxy.
some things I've done

/etc/environment has "export http_proxy=<proxy>" set.
I've configured apt with Aquire::http::Proxy AND http::Proxy
Additionally I've configured the network settings system wide proxy (manual and automatic)

nothing worked.
What puzzles me, is that I cannot see a thing in the details window.

Then it bails out
Failed to fetch http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/language-pack-kde-en-base/language-pack-kde-en-base_11.10+20111006_all.deb Could not connect to de.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (141.30.13.10), connection timed out [IP: 141.30.13.10 80]
Failed to fetch http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/language-pack-kde-en/language-pack-kde-en_11.10+20111006_all.deb Unable to connect to de.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 141.30.13.10 80

cheers,
Sven

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Actually aptdaemon doesn't unset the proxy if configured in apt.

Could you please append the output of apt-config dump?
Does "sudo apt-get update" in a Terminal work?

[Sven Kreienbrock (vinterkind)]

Like I've said. I've got APT configured and the Shell. I've got no problems on the shell,
except the export of http_proxy to root when using sudo.
So what I can do is "sudo -E apt-get update".
Else it won't work if I don't set the http_proxy variable explicitly for that session.

$ apt-config dump
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach$";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-image.*";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections "";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs";
APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";
APT::Update "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success "";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "touch /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp 2>/dev/null || true";
APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success:: "[ ! -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged || true";
APT::Archives "";
APT::Archives::MaxAge "30";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "500";
APT::Changelogs "";
APT::Changelogs::Server "http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs";
APT::Architectures "";
APT::Architectures:: "amd64";
APT::Architectures:: "i386";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::mirrors "mirrors/";
Dir::State::extended_states "extended_states";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::netrc "auth.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Etc::trusted "trusted.gpg";
Dir::Etc::trustedparts "trusted.gpg.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::solvers "";
Dir::Bin::solvers:: "/usr/lib/apt/solvers";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Media "";
Dir::Media::MountPath "/media/apt";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
Dir::Log::History "history.log...

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

I configured the system proxy using network-manager which resulted in a corresponding entry in /ect/environment:

http_proxy="http://test:8080"

The download in aptdcon failed since it could not connect to the proxy. So all seems to work fine.