[StarCluster] apt-get 403 error

[Cedar McKay]

This problem just went from bad to worse. Now it appears that even changing the sources.list file doesn't work. My guess is that ubuntu has withdrawn the 13.04 repos from their servers. That means that there is now no way to install packages using apt-get that I'm aware of. This is a big problem for my work.

Does anyone have any advice for workarounds? 

I respectfully request that the starcluster folks create some 14.04 based AMIs, and retire the 13.04 based AMIs. I took a crack at it upgrading to 14.04, but failed, it was a bit over my head.


best,
Cedar



On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:58 AM, David Mrva <davidm at cantabresearch.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The EC2 Ubuntu repository mirrors are down and according to communication from Canonical, they will not come up. This is because 13.04 is on a short support cycle, see
> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/changes-in-ubuntu-releases-decided-by-the-ubuntu-technical-board/
> and it has reached end of life in January 2014: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases.
> 
> This is very inconvenient. When I start a new spot instance with the loadbalancer, the pkginstaller plugin needs to install packages and the central (us.archive.ubuntu.com) repositories are not enabled by default.
> 
> Would it be possible to:
> a/ always enable archive.ubuntu.com repositories to be used if EC2 mirrors go down (or add an option to the pkginstall plugin to accept repository URLs to add to sources.list),
> b/ add StarCluster AMIs with Ubuntu 14.10 LTS?
> 
> Currently, out of the Ubuntu releases supported by StarCluster only 12.04 has not reached end-of-life:
> 
> >>> Listing all public StarCluster images...
> 
> 32bit Images:
> -------------
> [0] ami-b2badb82 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86 (EBS)
> [1] ami-0a6afe3a us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86 (EBS)
> [2] ami-c2bd30f2 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-11.10-x86 (EBS)
> 
> 64bit Images:
> --------------
> [0] ami-04bedf34 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64 (EBS)
> [1] ami-80bedfb0 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64-hvm (HVM-EBS)
> [2] ami-486afe78 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64-hvm (HVM-EBS)
> [3] ami-706afe40 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-12.04-x86_64 (EBS)
> [4] ami-c6bd30f6 us-west-2 starcluster-base-ubuntu-11.10-x86_64 (EBS)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/06/2014 22:25, Stephen How wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> For a temporary fix for the problem, I've edited my /etc/apt/sources.list file, fixing the URLs (shortening the hostname to archive.ubuntu.com).
>> 
>> Then you can
>> >apt-get update
>> and
>> >apt-get install (your-package)
>> 
>> That'll work until the main issue is fixed (/etc/cloud/templates/sources.list.ubuntu.tmpl ?).
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Stephen How <stephenhow at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe the URL changed to
>>> 
>>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
>>> 
>>> I'm reading the manual on how to change the apt-get source URL :)
>>> 
>>> Will update soon ...
>>> 
>>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Cedar McKay <cmckay at uw.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Same problem here. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cedar
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Stephen How <stephenhow at me.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Today I'm having trouble with apt-get install on the ami-56172513 image [us-west-1 starcluster-base-ubuntu-13.04-x86_64 (EBS)].
>>>>> 
>>>>> Usually, I apt-get install packages on this AMI without any problems.  Today it looks like something changed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> apt-get update didn't help
>>>>> 
>>>>> Failed to fetch http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is this an ubuntu.com http archive issue?  Can I point to some other package source?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>>> root at master:~# apt-get install sqlite3
>>>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>>>> Building dependency tree
>>>>> Reading state information... Done
>>>>> Suggested packages:
>>>>>   sqlite3-doc
>>>>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>>>>   sqlite3
>>>>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>>>> Need to get 29.2 kB of archives.
>>>>> After this operation, 187 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>>>>> Err http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main sqlite3 amd64 3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1
>>>>>   403  Forbidden
>>>>> Failed to fetch http://us-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sqlite3/sqlite3_3.7.15.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb  403  Forbidden
>>>>> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
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