setup-alpine fails to get sfdisk because `apk update` fails with no reason (vbox) [virt/standard]
setup-alpine fails at step of partitioning disk. sfdisk can't be downloaded as apk update
and apk add
fail for no reason.
manual download with wget from several selected mirrors works with no error. apk update
surprisingly fails to identify packages index.
see example screenshots for evidence.
screenshot1. setup-alpine last step failure:
screenshot2. apk update
failure and wget
success:
images tried (to name a few):
- http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-virt-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
- http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.11.3-x86_64.iso
- http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.10.4-x86_64.iso
instructions followed: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#Installation_Handbook
i expect given the network is intact that setup process should go without issues. i appreciate all the work done by alpine team, but this is very frustrating.
Update
Extended ISO http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-extended-3.11.3-x86_64.iso installed successfully and apk update
on it works fine, but virt/standard ISOs are still obviously broken.
Update 2:
Same workaround as above doesn't help with alpine/v3.10. apk add
and apk update
fail with error:
# apk update
fetch http://mirrors.gigenet.com/alpinelinux/v3.10/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: http://mirrors.gigenet.com/alpinelinux/v3.10/main: remote server returned error (try 'apk update')
v3.10.4-50-ga03c8d1518 [http://mirrors.gigenet.com/alpinelinux/v3.10/main]
1 errors; 5769 distinct packages available