- Canonical says downtime lasted only 36 minutes
- Users could not install updates for several days
- Ubuntu is back and running now
Canonical has reported a number of interruptions affecting Security.ubuntu.com and Archive.ubuntu.com, both on September 5 and 7, but despite the minutes long operating hours, users report continuous problems.
The short downtime created a large backlog of requests that servers struggled to process, even if the status page was immediately updated to loosely.
In the following days, users continued to experience unsuccessful installations, frozen updates and broken stocks.
Ubuntu hit by minutes long downtime
“They say the power cut was only 36 minutes, but two days later it still doesn’t work,” noticed a user (via Registered).
Another noticed that they had not installed Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 LTS on their machine because it freezes the middle process and could not download some packages.
“It is known that the backlog caused by power outage causes mirrors and safety updates to be” destroyed “at this time due to the backlog in the queue for processing,” confirmed the Ubuntu study Erich Eickmeyer in a thread that described the queue as “very large.”
At the top of the disturbance, Eickmeyer explained that there was nothing users could do except to wait.
Self-proclaimed Linux-Hobbyist Rubi1200 confirmed on September 7 that users were still reporting problems with updates, but in September things were restored to normal.
However, many users were not satisfied with the day long disturbance despite the minutes long power outage, with the status side not really reflecting the effect.
The disturbance also highlights how much of the Linux community leans on Security.ubuntu.com for security fixes – Lack of access to the server can result in serious problems if this was a patch for a critical vulnerability.
For now, however, it seems that users can install security updates as usual once again.
