Fix apt upgrade error when connecting to fr.archive.ubuntu.com
apt-get December 03, 2021Recently, when trying to upgrade my tiny Ubuntu Server, got this error:
Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal-updates/InRelease Cannot initiate the connection to fr.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2001:bc8:1600:4:63f:72ff:feaf:a2de). - connect (101: Network is unreachable)
I thought that the issue was related to IPv6, so I disabled it:
nano /etc/sysctl.conf1
Add:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
Run sysctl -p
Confirm cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
It should return 1 (disabled)
This didn’t help (also got error with IPv4)
W: Failed to fetch http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease Could not connect to fr.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (51.158.154.169), connection timed out
So, after doing a ping to fr.archive.ubuntu.com
and confirming it’s down, just replaced it with us.archive.ubuntu.com
:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Finally packages upgrade is running
apt-get update
apt upgrade
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