- Canonical says that the downtime lasted only 36 minutes
- Users could not install updates for days
- Ubuntu is running now
Canonical reported a series of breakdowns affecting Security.ubuntu.com and Archive.ubuntu.com on September 5 and 7, but despite the divergence times of a few minutes, users report ongoing problems.
The brief stoppage time has created a large backlog of requests that the servers have trouble processing, even if the status page was quickly updated to resolve.
In the days that followed, users continued to experience failed installations, frozen updates and broken standards.
Ubuntu hit downtime for a few minutes
“They say that the breakdown is only 36 minutes, but two days later, it still does not work,” noted a user (via The register).
Another noted that they had not managed to install Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 LTS on their machine because it was frozen in the middle of the process and not downloading certain packages.
“It is known that the backlog caused by the breakdown leads to the mirrors and the security updates” broken “at present due to the backlog in the queue for treatment,” confirmed Eickmeyer, the head of Ubuntu Studio Eickmeyer in a wire, which describes the queue like “very large”.
At the top of the disturbance, Eickmeyer explained that there were nothing users, except to wait.
The self -proclaimed leisure of Linux Rubi1200 confirmed on September 7 that users still reported problems with updates, but by September 8, things had been restored to normal.
However, many users were not satisfied with the disruption of several days despite the minutes, the status page that does not really reflect the impact.
The disturbance also highlights the part of the Linux community is based on Security.ubuntu.com for safety fixes – the fact that accessing the server could cause serious problems if it was a correction for critical vulnerability.
For the moment, however, it seems that users can install security updates as once again normal.
