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Larry Hunsicker
Asked: 2018-08-08 16:06:04 +0800 CST

ubuntu 18.04 apt-get upgrade problem "redirection loop encountered."

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I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. Now, when I run apt-get upgrade, I get the following error.

larry@VUbuntu15:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[sudo] password for larry: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libvte-2.91-0 linux-libc-dev
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,146 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Err:1 http://192.119.223.46:80/data/0116fed259cd0925/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libvte-2.91-0 amd64 0.52.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.2
  Redirection loop encountered
Err:2 http://192.119.223.46:80/data/011634d2c0cdf482/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 linux-libc-dev amd64 4.15.0-30.32
  Redirection loop encountered
E: Failed to fetch http://192.119.223.46:80/data/0116fed259cd0925/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/v/vte2.91/libvte-2.91-0_0.52.2-1ubuntu1~18.04.2_amd64.deb  Redirection loop encountered
E: Failed to fetch http://192.119.223.46:80/data/011634d2c0cdf482/us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-libc-dev_4.15.0-30.32_amd64.deb  Redirection loop encountered
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

If I run sudo apt-get update --fix-missing, I get the same errors.

What does the "Redirection loop encountered" mean? How can I fix this error?

No problems with apt-get update. The sources.list file seems to be OK.

apt 18.04

3 Answers

  1. You are going to love this.

    192.119.223.46 resolves to 192-119-223-46.client.mchsi.com.

    mchsi.com belongs to Mediacom. If you are a Mediacom customer it means they are hijacking your traffic and sending it somewhere it shouldn't go.

    I would try a traceroute to us.archive.ubuntu.com and see where it diverts.

    I would also try using a free DNS server like Google's 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1.

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  2. I just got this error. I initially thought the message meant sudo apt-get update --fix-missinguntil I triedsudo apt-get upgrade--fix-missing

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  3. This worked for me

    • Go to software and updates
    • Under the download from drop-down menu,select other
    • Choose best server
    • After a while it will pick a server for you. Choose server and let it do the configuration.
    • Then close and try to install, update or upgrade from the terminal.

    Hope it helps

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