Ubuntu
apt package

3rd party sources block OS updates.

Bug #1316262 reported by James Lewis on 2014-05-05

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	apt (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Google appear to have started doing GeoLocation on IPv6, and hence I discovered that some failure modes of 3rd party software sources which are automatically added by google when using Google Talk can cause updates to cease completely.

The graphical update tool reports that there are no updates available,.. infact there were more than 30.... I get this at the command line:-

root@trinity:/# apt-get update
Ign http://extras.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease
---- SNIP ---
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [58.5 kB]
Get:3 http://dl.google.com stable InRelease [1,540 B]
15% [3 InRelease gpgv 1,540 B] [Connecting to gb.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1360:8c01::18)] [2 Release 6,381 B/58.5 kB 11%] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for hSIgn http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
E: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable InRelease: Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NODATA' (does the network require authentication?)
root@trinity:/#

The content of the file in question can be seen below:-

root@trinity:/# more /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_InRelease
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head><title>Google - Product Unavailable</title>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<style type="text/css">

body {
font-family: arial,sans-serif;
color: #333333;
margin:10px;
margin-right:20px;
}

table#header {
margin-bottom:10px;
}

h1 {
margin-top:8px;
font-size:16px;
border-bottom:1px solid #999;
padding-bottom:3px;
}

td#content, td#content td {
font-size:13px;
}

#footer {
font-size:13px;
color:#666;
border-top:1px solid #ccc;
padding-top:12px;
margin-top:20px;
}
</style>

</head>
<body>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" id="header">
<tr>
<td style="padding-right:8px;"><a href="http://www.google.com/"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/google_sm.gif" width="143" height="59" border="0" al
t="Google"></a></td>
<td width="100%">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
    <tr>
     <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><h1>This product is not available in your country</h1></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
    <td id="content" valign="top">

<p style="padding:10px 0px;">Thanks for your interest, but the product that you're trying to download is not available in your country.</p>

<div id="footer">©2006 Google - <a href="http://www.google.com">Home</a> - <a href="http://www.google.com/about.html">About Google</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
root@trinity:/#

I imagine a great number of people have installed Google Talk plugins and if this results in them never again getting software/security updates due to an error in Google's geo-location then that should be considered a serious issue, obviously other 3rd party sources could cause this issue.

It seems that failed 3rd party sources should be handled gracefully.... BTW, I am in England.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apt 1.0.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 5 19:27:19 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-07 (87 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140207)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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