Vagrant - some packages not found (release 0.39.1.1)

[Alex Popescu]

I've run into some errors with Vagrant (both on macos & win10, if that would make any difference) – seemingly failed to acquire some packages: 

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-libc-dev_4.9.210-1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86_4.9.210-1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-4.9.0-12-common_4.9.210-1_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-kbuild-4.9_4.9.210-1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64_4.9.210-1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]

E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-latest/linux-headers-amd64_4.9+80+deb9u10_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.138.132 80]
....

E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64

E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64'

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-4.9.0-12-amd64'

....

The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.

Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

Full logs below:

https://pastebin.com/NFp7vRvd macos

https://pastebin.com/bcJXBMcx win

https://pastebin.com/QET4e5yx win
*somewhat similar both on dev and master branch

[Graeme Porteous]

Although you have the most recent version available it looks like the Debian Stretch vagrant box needs to be updated, unfortunately this is out of our control.

I would suggest you use one of the other base images as Stretch is really quite old. This can be done either via:

1. using one of the bin/vagrant-* wrapper scripts

2. by setting the ALAVETELI_VAGRANT_OS environment configuration variable

3. creating a .vagrant.yml file - see the .vagrant.yml-example file as a guide

Best

--
Graeme Porteous
gra...@mysociety.org

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Alaveteli Dev" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to alaveteli-de...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/alaveteli-dev/1a20939e-6f4c-4686-b9a2-a0f6535043d5n%40googlegroups.com.

[Gareth Rees]

This might also be an issue with the way Debian provides Vagrant images [1]. The issue discussion includes a workaround that might work here.

As Graeme says, Stretch is pretty old. We only support Stretch because we're still in the process of migrating our infrastructure to a more modern OS.

We're also about to add Ubuntu Focal support [2].

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6110

[2] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/pull/6392

[Alex Popescu]

Thank you, I finally managed to have a working Vagrant version.

If anybody else is stumbling upon this thread:
Following https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6110, after the initial error launching I did vagrant ssh -c "sudo apt -y install linux-headers-amd64" 
it first didn't help, then noticed  .vagrant.yml where the OS also needs to be changed: os: buster64
also, I found in some document that one also needs to run `vagrant vbguest`  besides installing the plugin. I also did that at some point, unsure if that helped.