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@billsecond billsecond released this 04 May 18:39
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ConsoleRDP 1.0.4 — tolerate transient apt mirror failures

Bug

If the target box had a broken IPv6 route to us.archive.ubuntu.com (common on shared-wifi, VPN, or minimal IPv6-less networks), or if security.ubuntu.com was mid-mirror-sync (giving a file-size mismatch on its Commands-amd64.xz CNF cache), apt-get update returned non-zero, set -euo pipefail killed the bootstrap script at step 1, and you were left staring at your shell prompt with nothing installed.

Seen in the wild as:

W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/... Cannot initiate the connection ... (Network is unreachable)
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/... File has unexpected size (744 != 968). Mirror sync in progress?
W: Some index files failed to download.

Fix

  • install-remote.sh and install.sh now warn-and-continue on apt-get update non-zero exit. The actual package archives (*.deb) are still reachable over IPv4 in both failure modes.
  • install-remote.sh only calls apt-get install for its three bootstrap utilities (curl, jq, tar) if they're actually missing from PATH. On stock Kubuntu 26.04 all three are present, so we skip apt entirely in the common case.
  • If a package genuinely can't be fetched, apt-get install still hard-fails loudly, so we don't silently paper over a truly broken mirror.

Upgrade / retry

On the fresh box, re-run the exact command you had before:

curl -fsSL https://github.com/billsecond/consolerdp/releases/latest/download/install-remote.sh -o /tmp/install-remote.sh
sudo bash /tmp/install-remote.sh

If the CNF size mismatch is still there a few hours from now, that's an Ubuntu mirror issue unrelated to ConsoleRDP; sudo apt-get update alone will clear up once the upstream sync completes.

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