# flaky apt installs today on ubuntu

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/flaky-apt-installs-today-on-ubuntu/23165>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/flaky-apt-installs-today-on-ubuntu/23165 "2016-12-02T23:16:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![james4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@james4](https://forum.ansible.com/u/james4)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/flaky-apt-installs-today-on-ubuntu/23165/1 "2016-12-02T23:16:27Z")

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{"failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"cache_valid_time": null, "deb": null, "default_release": null, "dpkg_options": "force-confdef,force-confold", "force": false, "install_recommends": null, "name": ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm", "sysstat"], "package": ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm", "sysstat"], "purge": false, "state": "present", "update_cache": true, "upgrade": null}, "module_name": "apt"}, "item": ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm", "sysstat"], "msg": "Could not fetch updated apt files"}

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Anyone seeing these today? Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Ansible 2.0.1.0

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Olsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andreas\_Olsson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andreas_Olsson)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/flaky-apt-installs-today-on-ubuntu/23165/2 "2016-12-03T03:54:09Z")

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fre 2016-12-02 klockan 15:16 -0800 skrev james@blendlabs.com:

> {"failed": true, "invocation": {"module\_args": {"cache\_valid\_time":  
> null, "deb": null, "default\_release": null, "dpkg\_options": "force-  
> confdef,force-confold", "force": false, "install\_recommends": null,  
> "name": ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm", "sysstat"], "package":  
> ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm", "sysstat"], "purge": false,  
> "state": "present", "update\_cache": true, "upgrade": null},  
> "module\_name": "apt"}, "item": ["cryptsetup", "liblz4-tool", "mdadm",  
> "sysstat"], "msg": "Could not fetch updated apt files"}

Looks more like an issue with your particular apt mirror, rather than a  
general Ubuntu issue?

// Andreas

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**Author:** ![james4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@james4](https://forum.ansible.com/u/james4)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/flaky-apt-installs-today-on-ubuntu/23165/3 "2016-12-05T23:00:41Z")

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We’re just using the stock ec2 and ubuntu mirrors. Running apt directly on the cli has no issues.