apt-get not working at all in hirsute docker image

[Francesco Chemolli]

I'm trying to set up a docker image for the Squid CI farm, and I can't install anything much there:

To repro:

$ docker run -ti --rm arm32v7/ubuntu:hirsute apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-updates/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-backports/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-security/InRelease
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I've tried running /usr/lib/apt/methods/http manually, it works just fine from the command line. Unfortunately apt-get doesn't give any detail at all about what could be wrong

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

thanks for reporting this bug. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is not responsible for images from the "arm32v7" namespace. The official Ubuntu images can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/_/ubuntu .
But I tried to reproduce this on the official ubuntu image (on a raspberrypi 4) and got the same failure:

# docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
ubuntu hirsute e59629bf0db9 2 weeks ago 55.2MB

# docker run -ti --rm ubuntu:hirsute apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-updates/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-backports/InRelease
E: Failed to fetch http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/hirsute-security/InRelease
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This is happening on rasbian. The docker version I use is:
# docker version
Client:
 Version: 18.09.1
 API version: 1.39
 Go version: go1.11.6
 Git commit: 4c52b90
 Built: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:45:43 +0100
 OS/Arch: linux/arm
 Experimental: false

Server:
 Engine:
  Version: 18.09.1
  API version: 1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version: go1.11.6
  Git commit: 4c52b90
  Built: Fri Sep 13 09:45:43 2019
  OS/Arch: linux/arm
  Experimental: false

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

@Francesco , could you share the output of `docker version` please?

[Francesco Chemolli (kinkie)]

Clarifying the context: this happened when the host system was a fully uptodate (as of Jul 2021) Raspbian, and Docker was docker-ce version 19.03.13, build 4484c46, as packaged by docker themselves, running on a Raspberry pi 3 (armhf, 32bit)

It may be an issue with the runtime, because when running the same on the same hardware platform on hirsute with docker version 20.10.2, build 20.10.2-0ubuntu2, the setup works just fine.

I have read that it may have something to do with libseccomp trying to use some privileged access that docker blocks, causing the failure

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

Marking as invalid given that this is a problem with the host docker version. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.