When connected to a network with a catch-all HTTP filter, apt-get update corrupts the package lists
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I need to log on through a webpage before I can access the internet on some networks.
Before that all HTTP requests are forwarded to a log-on page.
When apt-get update is being run in the background before this log-on has happened, it will corrupt the package lists with this log-on page. I need to manually remove multiple files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ then before I can rerun apt-get update.
When apt-get update gets invalid data, it should not corrupt its package lists.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apt 0.8.16~
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-rc5-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 18 13:33:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120204)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=nl_NL
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.