Can hang forever in downloading

[Iain Lane]

We've got some livefs builds which are running germinate, and they're hanging in the download code:

Running germinate...
Downloading http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/binary-armhf/Packages.xz file ...
Decompressing http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/binary-armhf/Packages.xz file ...
Downloading http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/source/Sources.xz file ...
Decompressing http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/main/source/Sources.xz file ...
Downloading http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/restricted/binary-armhf/Packages.xz file ...
Decompressing http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/restricted/binary-armhf/Packages.xz file ...
Downloading http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/restricted/source/Sources.xz file ...
Decompressing http://ftpmaster.internal/ubuntu/dists/hirsute/restricted/source/Sources.xz file ...
* Downloading http://archive-team.internal/seeds/ubuntu.hirsute/STRUCTURE

I don't have any more information (yet) about what's gone wrong here. But speculating, maybe it's blocking when connecting and a timeout there would be helpful.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package germinate - 2.37

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germinate (2.37) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * Make fetching over HTTP have a timeout (LP: #1912495).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:35:09 +0000