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When I do upgrade it gets stuck here:

user@plato:~# sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bind9-host coreutils cpio curl dnsutils libbind9-90 libc-bin libc-dev-bin
  libc6 libc6-dev libcgmanager0 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdns100
  libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libisc95 libisccc90
  libisccfg90 libjasper1 liblwres90 libplymouth2 libsepol1 libssl-dev
  libssl-doc libssl1.0.0 linux-libc-dev mime-support multiarch-support ntp
  ntpdate openssl plymouth plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text python3-distupgrade
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core unzip
39 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
0% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::15)] ░

When I do update it gets stuck here:

user@plato:~# apt-get update
0% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1562::14)] [Connecting to sec░

I'm able to ping us.archive.ubuntu.com just fine:

user@plato:~# ping us.archive.ubuntu.com
PING us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.91.23) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from economy.canonical.com (91.189.91.23): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=81.5 ms
64 bytes from economy.canonical.com (91.189.91.23): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=81.5 ms
64 bytes from economy.canonical.com (91.189.91.23): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=81.5 ms
64 bytes from economy.canonical.com (91.189.91.23): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=81.4 ms
^C
--- us.archive.ubuntu.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 81.425/81.528/81.582/0.355 ms

What can i do to fix this?


What I have tried so far.

I've tried following directions on this blog: http://nickescobedo.com/719/ubuntu-apt-get-hangs-at-0

To force apt-get to use IPv4 exclusively

  • Create a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4
  • Add this line to newly created file Acquire::ForceIPv4 false;
  • Apt-get will now use IPv4 exclusively
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  • None of the answers worked for me: my problem was my Windows host firewall blocking my Ubuntu guest running in Virtualbox.
    – drodsou
    Jan 2, 2018 at 20:10
  • None of these answers worked for me. I restarted my virtual machine and it works now.
    – kilojoules
    Apr 25, 2018 at 18:33

4 Answers 4

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I figured out how to get apt-get to work again.

Edit gai.conf:

sudo vim /etc/gai.conf

change line ~54 to uncomment the following:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  100

write and quit:

:wq

CAUTION

Look out line 50 which looks almost identical:

precedence ::ffff:0:0/96  10

This is the wrong line. Go ~4 lines down and you'll find the correct line to uncomment because it ends with 100 instead of 10

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  • 2
    Thank you for posting your solution. I was having the same issue and this fixed it.
    – bradym
    Jan 21, 2015 at 7:00
  • 60
    How on Earth did you figure this out? This suddenly started happening to me on one of my servers and this fixed it.
    – Brian Neal
    Jan 25, 2015 at 21:11
  • 4
    What is going on here? Care to elaborate why this fix works?
    – four43
    Jun 16, 2015 at 20:35
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    Problem: ISPs are starting to setup an internal IPv6 network in preparation for eventually connecting to the IPv6 internet. As a result, servers in this network now try to connect to *.ubuntu.com via its IPv6 address by default when running apt-get. Solution: uncommenting precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 allows requests to prefer IPv4 Jun 16, 2015 at 22:19
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    FIXED! This is definitely the right fix for this issue. But for anyone that comes across this fix make sure you DO NOT do what I did. I uncommented precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 10 and I had to go back in to the file and comment that line again and then uncomment the correct line which is precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100
    – dtigue
    Aug 6, 2015 at 17:46
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It's better to disable the IPV6 before you update and upgrade.

  1. Open Terminal

  2. Enter sudo -H gedit /etc/sysctl.conf and open the configuration file and add the following lines at the end

    net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
    net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 
    net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 
    
  3. After that run

    cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 
    

    If it reports ‘1′ means you have disabled IPV6.

    If it reports ‘0‘ then please follow Step 4 and Step 5.

  4. Type command sudo sysctl -p. You will see this in terminal.

    net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 
    net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 
    net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 
    
  5. Repeat above “Step 3” and it will now report 1.

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  • this worked.I did not understand why. Can you explain please.
    – AAI
    Aug 7, 2019 at 3:30
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None of the IPv6 fixes worked for me. Possibly I have the same symptom with a different cause. My workaround was to switch to a different archive by doing a search and replace in sources.list, e.g.:

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

And then:

:%s/us\.archive/de\.archive/g
:wq

This at least allows me to get back to work until I figure out the real problem.

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What worked for me was to switch my VirtualBox Network settings for my Ubuntu guest to "NAT" from "Bridged Adapter".

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    Yes, this is bound to work. But, why doesn't it work over 'Bridged Adapter'. I am able to do everything with 'Bridged Adapter' except apt-get update.
    – soufrk
    Mar 13, 2018 at 11:47

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