Network -> Network Proxy -> Apply System Wide does NOT update "/etc/apt/apt.conf"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When I bring my Ubuntu laptop to work, I must tell it to connect to the proxy server. To do this, I go to the "Network" pane, then the "Network Proxy" sub-pane. Under "Method" I select "Automatic" and enter the correct "Configuration URL". Then I press "Apply System wide". My web browser now can connect to the Internet. However, applications like "Update Manager", and "Ubuntu Software Center", and even "apt-get" in the command line fail to communicate with ANY package repository servers. Checking "/etc/apt/
To reproduce this issue:
1. With a computer that does not connect to the Internet via proxy, isolate the computer behind a firewall which forwards all Web traffic (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP) to a content-filtering proxy server.
2. In gnome-control-
3. Press the "Apply system wide" button.
4. Open "Update Manager" and press "Check" and/or "Install Updates". FAILS -- package updates appear to begin to download, but eventually times-out and reports an error.
5. Check "/etc/apt/
Work-around:
As a root user, modify "/etc/apt/apt.conf" by hand with content like:
Acquire:
Acquire:
Acquire:
Acquire:
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 21 13:22:24 2011
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (6 days ago)
usr_lib_
deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1
Thank you for your report. This has already been reported in bug 877088, so I am marking this as a duplicate. Your report was quite thorough though, so if you think you can add something to that report please do so.