Xenial ppa.launchpad timed out

All. I can suggest is ty later. Possibly some maintenance work or similar

Waited for quite some time now, is there really a maintenance?

Everything in your original posting points towards a network problem (e.g. "connection timed out" and a very low speed of "3,873 B/s")

What output do you currently receive for the command

sudo apt update

(You are free to redact the output if there are parts that you want to keep secret, as long as the gist of the information stays readable.)

I am facing the same thing, my vps is on singapore

any update regarding this matter?

Thanks

Hi. I have been having this issue since december 22nd and it is still not working properly for us. This affects quite a lot of docker builds that we have running over night.

Please let me know if i can provide some additional information.

One thing i can add, the issue is really intermittent. This is combined with intermittent failures (timeouts) on security.ubuntu.com as well as archive.ubuntu.com. Those are easy to change to localised mirrors, however the i haven't found a way to change ppa.launchpad.net to a localised mirror.

Successful apt update:
root@326bda5e8e61:/# apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Fetched 216 kB in 0s (321 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Failed apt update:
root@326bda5e8e61:/# apt update
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Err:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Could not connect to ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.95.85), connection timed out
Fetched 216 kB in 3s (71.9 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Could not connect to ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.95.85), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Even worse apt update:
root@326bda5e8e61:/# apt update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Err:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Could not connect to ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.95.85), connection timed out
Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
  Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.88.152), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Err:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
  Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Err:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
  Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Fetched 109 kB in 6s (18.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.88.152), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Could not connect to ppa.launchpad.net:80 (91.189.95.85), connection timed out
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Do you experience any problem when trying to open
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease
and
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease
with your web browser?

Cannot use a browser from there as it is a server however it fails almost the same:

Successful archive.ubuntu.com:

curl -vv --ipv4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease > /dev/null
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 91.189.88.152...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.152) port 80 (#0)
> GET /ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease HTTP/1.1
> Host: archive.ubuntu.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.52.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:48:27 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
< Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:20:00 GMT
< ETag: "1a148-5b823b5fa5000"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 106824
< Cache-Control: max-age=92, proxy-revalidate
< Expires: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:50:00 GMT
<
{ [1006 bytes data]
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 0
100 104k 100 104k 0 0 1252k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1256k
* Connection #0 to host archive.ubuntu.com left intact

Failed archive.ubuntu.com:
curl -vv --ipv4 -m30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-backports/InRelease > /dev/null
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 91.189.88.152...
* TCP_NODELAY set
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:14 --:--:-- 0* After 14997ms connect time, move on!
* connect to 91.189.88.152 port 80 failed: Connection timed out
* Trying 91.189.88.142...
* TCP_NODELAY set
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:22 --:--:-- 0* After 7388ms connect time, move on!
* connect to 91.189.88.142 port 80 failed: Connection timed out
* Failed to connect to archive.ubuntu.com port 80: Connection timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to archive.ubuntu.com port 80: Connection timed out

Success ppa.launchpad.net:
curl -vv --ipv4 -m30 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease > /dev/null
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 91.189.95.85...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to ppa.launchpad.net (91.189.95.85) port 80 (#0)
> GET /ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease HTTP/1.1
> Host: ppa.launchpad.net
> User-Agent: curl/7.52.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:51:43 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
< Last-Modified: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:54:01 GMT
< ETag: "5d45-5b7d7129414cb"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 23877
< Cache-Control: max-age=0, s-maxage=270, proxy-revalidate
< Expires: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:51:43 GMT
< Connection: close
<
{ [1112 bytes data]
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 0
100 23877 100 23877 0 0 633k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 647k
* Closing connection 0

Failed ppa.launchpad.net:
curl -vv --ipv4 -m30 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease > /dev/null
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 91.189.95.85...
* TCP_NODELAY set
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:29 --:--:-- 0* Connection timed out after 30001 milliseconds
* Curl_http_done: called premature == 1
* stopped the pause stream!
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:30 --:--:-- 0
* Closing connection 0
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 30001 milliseconds

The issues are super random. Additionally, sometimes it succeeds after taking a rather long time to connect (10-12 seconds). But this is not very often.

The issue is happening much more often for ppa.launchpad.net than for archive or security.

I have eliminated the output, please let me know if there is something relevant. I think just the headers should do.

I am puzzled - the question was asked by Daniel Krzewina but my request for more information is replied to by Cristian Datculescu?

Well, it seems that i am not the single one that experiences this issue.
For the time being, i am able to workaround the timeout by using IPv6 instead of IPv4, so i guess it
does not have to do with slow bandwith.

Yeah. I am not the original poster, but i also encounter quite a lot of issues regarding this.

Considering Xenial has very little support left it may be a good idea to upgrade to Bionic (at least)

@Cristian Datculescu:
Please do not pollute the question document of somebody else with your output. This is confusing any may lead to wrong conclusions, e.g. in case that your problem (although perhaps looking similar) is caused by a different reason.

Please create a question document of your own.

@Manfred Hampl sorry, was not aware that the rules are to open every time a new thread.