apt-get update fails with error 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

[Sebastian Nohn]

Binary package hint: apt

Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
  416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable [IP: 141.30.13.30 80]
Fetched 5,079B in 2s (2,296B/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable [IP: 141.30.13.30 80]

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apt 0.8.3ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 16 07:56:13 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/apt-get
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt

[Douglas Leeder (ubuntu-leeder)]

One way around the problem might be to change your sources.list to a different country, so that apt-get is forced to download the whole file.

[Mika Pflüger (mikapflueger)]

Changeing the mirror to the main mirror from the update-manager did work, but somehow the german mirror still appears broken.

[Axel Pospischil (apos)]

I am on 11.04 but using the oneiric sources with apt-pinning and get the same error:

Fehl http://de.archive.ubuntu.com oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
  416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable [IP: 141.30.13.10 80]

and in the summary:

W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/universe/binary-amd64/Packages 416 Requested
Range Not Satisfiable [IP: 141.30.13.10 80]

But when i change my oneiric.list to use the default server (without prefix "de."), everything works fine.

This really seams to be a problem with the server. The problem is, that it takes several sekonds ( about a minute) for apt to resolve the issue which is very annoying on updates.

[Ilja Pavkovic (ipavkovic)]

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* removes partially downloaded repository files. This fixed this problem on my system.

[Sven K. (wagalaweia)]

I had the same problem, but the workaround by Ilja (removing partially downloaded repository files) solved it. I did not even had to restart the update manager.

[Christopher K. (christopher-christosoft)]

Same problem here and Ilja's workaround fixed it. I think apt might delete these files and try again when this error happens. As this seems to be easy to fix automatically, I think apt should be able to fix it without any user interaction.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

http:400%20URI%20Failure%0aURI:%20http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2%0aMessage:%20416%20%20Requested%20Range%20Not%20Satisfiable%20%0aFailReason:%20HttpError416

The S3 Apt mirrors are blocked pending this bug. A review of debug logs shows that S3-Ec2 mirror users who are hitting 403 are getting the 403 due to a fall through of 416 errors.

Note this only applies to meta-data failures.

[ptoche (patrick-toche)]

I guess I must have been experiencing a similar problem.

However, I removed all the lists, not just the partial lists, they were rebuild automatically by muon after "check for updates", and no restart needed as mentioned above:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Note that the following was of no help whatsoever:
sudo apt-get purge muon
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install muon

[ptoche (patrick-toche)]

precision: my comment above is not clear enough, apologies.

1. removing the partial lists didn't "solve" the warning message, but removing all the lists did.

2. shouldn't one expect that "purge"-ing muon would remove these lists?

3. after purging, cleaning, installing again, then removing the lists, my list of "software sources" was still present in muon, before a restart (not sure if they would have been cleared after a restart because I did not restart).

I'm on kubuntu 10.04.

hope this helps a little. Thanks.

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

On 9 February 2013 22:04, ptoche <email address hidden> wrote:
> 2. shouldn't one expect that "purge"-ing muon would remove these lists?

No. Muon is not responsible for those lists. As indicated by the
path, they are handled by the apt package.

>
> 3. after purging, cleaning, installing again, then removing the lists,
> my list of "software sources" was still present in muon, before a
> restart (not sure if they would have been cleared after a restart
> because I did not restart).

No. The software sources are configured in /etc/apt/sources.list.
The lists under /var/lib contain package information retrieved from
those sources.

[EOLE team (eole-team)]

Hello,

Any news on this issue, we are facing it on Precise Pangolin some times.

Regards.

[Timur Nurlygayanov (tnurlygayanov)]

This issue reproduced on my labs, do we have fixed / workarounds?
I was described in 2011 and not fixed yet...

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

There have been quite a lot of changes in xenial and newer to fetching files, so I'm closing this. If anyone can reproduce this in 16.04 or newer, feel free to reopen it or open a new bug.