Intermittent apt-get 'no installation candidate' error on fabric deploy
- by jberryman
I'm experiencing a strange issue with a fabric script I'm using to bootstrap a server on EC2.
I launch a stock Ubuntu 12.04 AMI, wait for it to start, then proceed with:
with settings(host_string="ubuntu@%s" % i.dns_name,
connection_attempts=30):
sudo('apt-get -qy update')
sudo('apt-get -qy install --no-install-recommends mdadm') # don't install postfix
#etc...
The apt-get update appears to run fine and gives no errors, however (2/3 of the time or so) installing mdadm throws a "no installation candidate" error.
When I ssh into the server and run apt-get install mdadm I get the same error. Running apt-get update by hand, then the package installs fine.
Any ideas on what might be happening, or ideas for debugging?
