hi. this is really a dupe of bug 972077. Apt in 16.04 should not have any non-transient errors. Thus, marking this fix-released. In order to get a re-try back to trusty, we could potentially SRU a fix, but that is arguably just hiding underlying problems. That said, since those underlying problems are now fixed in 16.04, i'm more apt to bother hiding them in older releases.
** Changed in: cloud-init Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1594967 Title: cloud-init lack of retry causes apt-get failures to be fatal Status in cloud-init: Fix Released Bug description: We use cloudinit to do apt-gets to install software. apt-gets fail ~20% of the time and it seems to be increasing. W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://us-central1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5 NO_PUBKEY 3B4FE6ACC0B21 F32 Manually doing the command below a few times solves the problem, but cloudinit doesn't have any retry logic around this so having stable apt repositories is very important to have a repeatable process. What do you recommend if the repos won't be stable? I would think a simple retry in cloud-init (either configurable or 5x or something sane) would be very helpful. apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX apt-get update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1594967/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp