Can not update using apt

[indam]

Hey, I reinstalled the app, and executed 'apt update', then failed. here is the screenshot.

[fornwall]

Hm, same problem as in https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/30.

Could you try accessing http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease in the browser on the device, and try running

wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease

Could you also paste the output of uname -a and apt --version?

[fornwall]

Also, which Android device do you run? Which Android version? Running a custom ROM?

[indam]

@fornwall thanks, please find it here. I installed termux from Google Play. My phone is HTC M8, with the official ROM, android version 5.0.1, rooted.

[indam]

And I tried to download the InRelease file, it seems not working for me.

[indam]

oops, I am sorry, I closed this issue by mistake, could you please reopen it?

[fornwall]

And I tried to download the InRelease file, it seems not working for me.

Can you access it (http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease) in your Android browser? If not, what happens (blank page or error message)?

[indam]

@fornwall I am sorry, I make you confused. I mean I can access it in browser, and also be able to download it with wget. But apt install still did not work for me.

[fornwall]

@indam Ok, thanks for the confirmation! I'm trying to reproduce the problem, but I'm still unable to do so. So if you have the possibility to try a few things it would be helpful:

(1) Update to the latest apt version by hand, and see if it works afterwards:

wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/apt-1.1.5_arm.deb
dpkg -i apt-1.1.5_arm.deb

(2) If the problem still persists, could you run the following and append the output here?

apt-get update -o Debug::Acquire::Http=true

(3) Later, could you install strace by hand:

wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/strace-4.10-1_arm.deb
dpkg -i strace-4.10-1_arm.deb

Then run the following

strace -f -o log.txt apt update

and upload the log.txt somewhere and link to it (or mail the file to me)?

[indam]

@fornwall Yes, I put the screenshot here, and you can also find the log file as attachment.

log.txt.zip

[fornwall]

@indam Thanks for all the help!

It seems that apt loads the url fine, but for some reason the lib/apt/methods/http binary seem to hit the line

Dprint(statp->options & RES_DEBUG,
           (stdout, ";; new DG socket\n"))

in the system DNS resolver, res_send.c. This output interferes with the text-based protocol through which apt communicates with lib/apt/methods/http. Root cause still unknown...

[indam]

@fornwall You are welcome. I hope this can be solved soon, and if you need more investigation, do not hesitate to contact me.

[franciscod]

have you guys tried on another network? if you're on 3G try wifi, if on wifi try 3G or another wifi, and so on

[franciscod]

Also, notice this message in the first line:

res_send: select: Connection refused

It might be an issue on the server where the packages are hosted. Maybe hosting them on a mirror could help to diagnose the issue?

[fornwall]

There was a DNS change done for apt.termux.com (updating the SOA record in the DNS zone to ensure it lines up with the nameservers in use by the domain) two days ago, could you try again if it works for you now @indam?

If it's still a problem, could you install curl and check if e.g. curl http://apt.termux.com/gives any error output (just ruling out some possible errors)?

[jlefman]

There are issues with wget and apt. Curl works okay it seems.

$ wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease
--2015-12-22 22:33:21--  http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease                     Resolving apt.termux.com... 216.119.132.66
Connecting to apt.termux.com|216.119.132.66|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1875 (1.8K) [text/plain]             Saving to: 'InRelease.2'

[1]+  Stopped                 wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease
$ fg
-bash: fg: job has terminated
[1]+  Segmentation fault      wget http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease

$ curl  http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease > cfile
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0100  1875  100

$ apt --version                              apt 1.1.5 (arm)

Android info:

• not rooted
• OS v5.0.2
• HTC Desire Eye type phone

[franciscod]

maybe try verbosities of curl and wget to see effectively what IP address they're trying to download from?

[indam]

@fornwall I tried again, still the same problem. And I do not think this is due to the network, because I tried using different VPNs, it is still like this.

I test with curl, it seems fine. No errors found. @franciscod

[jlefman]

Update

Manually installed all available updates in arm binaries under release packages using dpkg. No changes to apt error.

$ apt update                                 0% [Working]res_send: select: Connection refused                                          Get:1 http://apt.termux.com stable InRelease [1875 B]                                     Get:2 http://apt.termux.com stable/main arm Packages [35.7 kB]                            Reading package lists... Done                E: Invalid message from method http: ;; new DG socket                                     102 Status                                   URI: http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/InRelease                                         Message: Connecting to apt.termux.com

All packages installed:

$ dpkg -l
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
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[fornwall]

I was able to reproduce the problem on a HTC One X with stock ROM, so I would guess that this is a HTC problem (the apt http code triggering debug logging on HTC system builds). Will look into it!

[franciscod]

right now:

$ apt install python2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6863 kB of archives.
After this operation, 35.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 http://apt.termux.com stable/main arm python2 arm 2.7.11
  Could not connect to apt.termux.com:80 (216.119.132.66). - connect (111: Connection refused)
E: Failed to fetch http://apt.termux.com/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/python2-2.7.11_arm.deb  Could not connect to apt.termux.com:80 (216.119.132.66). - connect (111: Connection refused)

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
$ 

[franciscod]

fixed

EDIT: no, server seems to be flaky...

[fornwall]

Hi, finally this issue with (certain?) HTC devices not working with apt can now be resolved! It's fixed in a new version of the apt package, version 1.1.6. This now comes as part of the bootstrap installation for new users.

For users stuck with the current non-working apt version, you can either re-install the application, or execute the following commands:

apt -o Acquire::EnableSrvRecords=false update
apt -o Acquire::EnableSrvRecords=false upgrade

This should work around the issue and update apt to the working version 1.1.6, after which you can update and install packages as normal.

Thanks a lot for all the information provided which helped pinpoint where the problem was!

[indam]

Thank you, it works for me now. :D

[jlefman]

:+1: Working for my system as well. Thank you, @fornwall. Would it be possible to receive an explanation of the underlying issue and what this workaround is doing? Thank you for your time on this issue.

[fornwall]

@jlefman The problem was that apt version 1.1 introduced support for SRV records, whose retrieval using system functions seems to cause debug logging on (certain?) HTC devices - perhaps due to HTC having left the debug flag on by mistake.

This debug output from a dedicated http fetching process in apt led to apt not being able to parse the http response, which caused to this problem.

The solution was to patch apt to disable SRV records by default for now, since it's not something used by the Termux apt.

[dvlasenk]

This (simple install using "apt install") does not work for me. Freshly installed termix. $ apt --version apt 1.2.1 (arm) $ strace -tt -s99 -f -oLOG.TXT apt install sox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Unable to locate package sox

Please find the LOG.TXT file attached. I don't see any attempt to resolve "termux.net" thru DNS there... is that normal?

stracing "ping -c1 termux.net" shows how DNS resolution looks like in a working case:

... 18877 socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0) = 4 18877 setsockopt(4, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0 18877 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/dev/socket/dnsproxyd"}, 110) = 0 18877 fcntl64(4, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR) 18877 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 18877 mprotect(0xb6e65000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0 18877 mprotect(0xb6e65000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 18877 write(4, "gethostbyname 0 termux.net 2\0", 29) = 29 18877 read(4, "222\0\0\0\0\vtermux.net\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\20h\22%\352termh\22$\352et\0\0\0\0\0\20h\22$\352et\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 4096) = 75 18877 close(4) = 0 18877 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 18877 socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 5 18877 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/dev/socket/fwmarkd"}, 110) = 0 18877 sendmsg(5, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 12}], msg_controllen=16, [{cmsg_len=16, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_RIGHTS, [4]}], msg_flags=0}, 0) = 12 18877 recvfrom(5, "\0\0\0\0", 4, 0, NULL, NULL) = 4 18877 close(5) = 0 18877 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1025), sin_addr=inet_addr("104.18.37.234")}, 16) = 0 ...

LOG.TXT

[fornwall]

@dvlasenk Have you executed apt update before running apt install? This is needed to download the list of available packages.

[Pathak706]

I have newly joined termux. and I oftenly face the issue of E:Unable to locate How to fix this issue