- Canonical says that the inactivity time only lasted 36 minutes
- Users could not install updates for days
- Ubuntu is in operation now
Canonical has reported a series of interruptions that affect Security.ubuntu.com and Archive.ubuntu.com both on September 5 and 7, but despite the care steps, users report ongoing problems.
The short time of inactivity created a great accumulation of applications that the servers fought to process, despite the fact that the state page was quickly updated to resolve.
In the days that followed, users continued to experience failed facilities, frozen updates and broken repositories.
Ubuntu hit in the time of inactivity
“They say the interruption was only 36 minutes, but two days later it still does not work,” said a user (through The registration).
Another pointed out that they had not been able to install Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 Lts in their machine because it was freezing the average process and not downloading some packages.
“It is known that the request for orders caused by the interruption is causing mirrors and security updates to” break “at this time due to the accumulation of tail for processing,” confirmed Erich Erich Eickmeyer of Ubuntu Studio in a thread, which described the tail as “very large.”
At the top of the interruption, Eickmeyer explained that there was nothing that users could do except Wait.
The self -proclaimed Linux Rubi1200 fan confirmed on September 7 that users still reported problems with updates, but for September 8 things had been restored to normal.
However, many users were not happy with the interruption of the days despite the interruption of the minutes, and the state page does not really reflect the impact.
The interruption also highlights how much of the Linux community is based on Security.ubuntu.com for security solutions: not accessing the server could lead to serious problems if this were a patch for critical vulnerability.
For now, however, it seems that users can install security updates as normal once again.
