gce_debian_mirror: 403 Forbidden

[Kai Bolay]

I've just tried to update my machine, but it looks like the GCE mirrors are having a problem:

kbolay@vps:~$ sudo apt-get update  
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports InRelease                                                                  
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie InRelease    
Ign http://http.debian.net jessie InRelease                                            
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie Release.gpg                                                
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie Release.gpg                      
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]        
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources                                            
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages                                      
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en                                                      
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie Release                                                                              
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie Release  
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-backports/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [27.8 kB]        
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main Sources/DiffIndex      
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main Sources                        
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main amd64 Packages              
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.debian.net jessie/main Translation-en              
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main Translation-en
Err http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main Sources
 403  Forbidden
Err http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main amd64 Packages
 403  Forbidden
Fetched 55.6 kB in 5s (10.9 kB/s)
W: Failed to fetch http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/dists/jessie/main/source/Sources  

W: Failed to fetch http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages  403  Forbidden

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
kbolay@vps:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb     http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/ jessie         main
deb-src http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/ jessie         main
deb     http://http.debian.net/debian jessie         main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian jessie         main
deb     http://security.debian.org/   jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/   jessie/updates main
kbolay@vps:~$ ll /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Jul 11  2016 jessie-backports.list

kbolay@vps:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list  
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

[Karthick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

I suspect you could be running in to this issue. I suggest you to run this below command and let me know of the result :

- sudo -s

- # curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -

- # apt-get update

[Kai Bolay]

Hi Karthick!

I don't think that issue is related. 

kbolay@vps:~$ sudo -s 

root@vps:/home/kbolay# curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -

OK

root@vps:/home/kbolay# apt-get update

[...]

Err http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main Sources
 403  Forbidden
Err http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com jessie/main amd64 Packages
 403  Forbidden

[...]

So the key was properly (re-)installed. But I'm still getting "403 Forbidden" responses from the web server. Anyway, AFAIK the apt key is used to verify packages after they are downloaded. But the error prevents any downloads. I think the web server at http://gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com/ is misconfigured.

  Thanks, Kai

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[Zach Marano]

The old mirror (gce_debian_mirror.storage.googleapis.com) that you were referencing is no longer maintained. Please switch to deb.debian.org.