[Hardy] update behind proxy - connections time out

I am going to update from gutsy to hardy in the vmware image. Lets see what happens.

Any updates here? I've noticed the same thing here. Hard to believe there hasn't been more noise about it...Is there another bug that's tracking this problem?

For the record, I'm not using vmware, I'm installing directly on a system, though this problem doesn't seem to depend on whether the system is a vm or not.

I upgraded from gutsy to hardy (via a search and replace gusty to hardy in sources.list and a dist-upgrade) and I have this problem too. It just times out on an apt-get update.

wget also works fine to retrieve files through the http_proxy environment variable. browsers are all working fine too.

Just installed a new copy of ubuntu hardy alpha 4 in a vmware at work. Proxy settings have been defined in synaptic and firefox and they both work. Update-amager still can NOT connect and aptitude or apt-get on the server can NOT connect either.

Setting this bug to confirmed

I can also confirm this bug in Hardy alpha 4 from a clean install.

I can also confirm this bug in Hardy alpha 4 from a clean install.

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can reproduce this here too, it turns out that the bug is that sudo is much more strict about the environement variables and filters everything out that is not in a special (and very small) whitelist. This includes http_proxy.

Wow, it sounds so easy and straightforward when you explain it like this. Seems to be easily solvable than. Zhanks a lot.

This should be fixed with the latest gksu upload (2.0.5-1ubuntu5) and the behavior of gutsy is restored.

Cheers,
 Michael

Michael,

I know you marked this as Fix Released, but I still have the same problem after updating gksu to 2.0.5-1ubuntu5. Is it working for you? By the way, I've noticed that the password in http_proxy is always displayed cleartext, I suppose that's a different bug (that I shall open today).

Could it be related to bug #162837 ?

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:50:27 Jose De la Rosa wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I know you marked this as Fix Released, but I still have the same
> problem after updating gksu to 2.0.5-1ubuntu5. Is it working for you? By
> the way, I've noticed that the password in http_proxy is always
> displayed cleartext, I suppose that's a different bug (that I shall open
> today).

With a fully update hardy I get:

$ apt-cache show gksu
Package: gksu
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 472
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.0.0-5ubuntu1

Are you sure its 2.0.5-1ubuntu5 ?

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Michael: gksu appears to have fixed synaptic, but not apt-get on the command line (not surprising). Could you investigate why that might be timing out as well.

Maybe this is related: I am also behind a proxy, Synaptic works with my proxy-settings, but for example apport (gui and command-line) can't connect. Uploading a crash report, I always have to use apport-cli tunneling the proxy with tsocks.
Using Hardy amd64.

Since apt-get is still broken, I will open a new bug for it, since it seems this bug was used for fixing gksu.

The bug task for the somerville project has been removed by an automated script. This bug has been cloned on that project and is available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305474