Docker-alpine: 503 error when getting APKINDEX

Created on 15 Mar 2017 · 6Comments · Source: gliderlabs/docker-alpine

I'm receiving this message a lot today. Sometimes, trying again works, but I'm at a pretty low chance of success at the moment. Is the CDN functioning right now?

fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz: temporary error (try again later)
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.5/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz: temporary error (try again later)

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jsternberg

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makes my travis-ci docker test fail

Step 2 : RUN apk update
---> Running in 436bea56ec8c
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main: temporary error (try again later)
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.167438ca.tar.gz: No such file or directory
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community: temporary error (try again later)
WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.a2e6dac0.tar.gz: No such file or directory

lindycoder on 15 Mar 2017

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having this issue too, ended up running it like this:

until apk -Uuv add [packages]; do sleep 1; done

In my docker image builds.

mattbailey on 15 Mar 2017

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This issue is occurring for me as well. It appears intermittent. I sometimes get a 503 when running a wget on http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz or http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz sometimes I can pull the file down on my local. This is failing in a jenkins job for a docker setup. Getting:

fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz: temporary error (try again later)
fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz: temporary error (try again later)

If I wait a few minutes it might work. I also went to http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine and then when I open version# into a new tab, sometimes the link opens and other times 503.
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