[Apt-cacher-ng-users] "known data hit, don't write to" messages

Mon Jun 24 13:33:52 UTC 2013

Hallo,
* Charles [Mon, Jun 24 2013, 09:35:04AM]:
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I understand... Greetings!

>     We have many "known data hit, don't write to" messages in
>     /var/log/apt-cacher-ng/apt-cacher.err.  The file had 51,462 lines
>     covering exactly two years.<br>

It's a bug in the current version, a debugging message which is also
printed if debug= option isn't set. A cache hit is usually a good thing.

>     <br>
>     A random sample of lines showed few messages per day (some days no
>     messages), most caused by loss of Internet connectivity and the same
>     few repositories that were not DNS resolvable.<br>
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>     Then, on 23 May 2013 the first of many messages like these ...<br>
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There was the Wheezy release in May, maybe this is the reason?

>     <font face="monospace">Thu May 23 15:35:36 2013|known data hit,
>       don't write to...<br>
>       Thu May 23 15:35:36
>       2013|/var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts</font><br>
>     <br>
>     ... after which they dominate the log, comprising 51,348 of its
>     51,462 lines.<br>

Ok... is there any other erroneous behavior originating from this log
problem?

Regards,
Eduard.