Apt proxy problems downloading large files

post by rol.N on Jul 4, 2025

Hi,

I have a containerized Nexus Repository with 3 HA Nodes running various apt proxy repos connected to archive.ubuntu.com.

As soon as I want to install packages with large files like linux-firmware, flightgear-data-base I get an error:

2025-07-04 06:41:24,807+0000 WARN  [qtp245867715-70] *UNKNOWN org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.ViewServlet - Failure servicing: GET /repository/apt-proxy-noble/pool/universe/f/flightgear-data/flightgear-data-base_2020.3.18%2bdfsg-1_all.deb
org.eclipse.jetty.io.EofException: null
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SocketChannelEndPoint.flush(SocketChannelEndPoint.java:118)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection.networkFlush(SslConnection.java:499)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection$SslEndPoint.flush(SslConnection.java:1134)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.WriteFlusher.flush(WriteFlusher.java:422)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.WriteFlusher.write(WriteFlusher.java:275)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.WriteFlusher.write(WriteFlusher.java:254)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractEndPoint.write(AbstractEndPoint.java:368)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpConnection$SendCallback.process(HttpConnection.java:859)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.IteratingCallback.processing(IteratingCallback.java:262)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.util.IteratingCallback.iterate(IteratingCallback.java:243)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpConnection$HttpStreamOverHTTP1.send(HttpConnection.java:1440)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpStream$Wrapper.send(HttpStream.java:185)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpStream$Wrapper.send(HttpStream.java:185)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.SessionHandler$SessionStreamWrapper.send(SessionHandler.java:113)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.internal.HttpChannelState$ChannelResponse.write(HttpChannelState.java:1316)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response$Wrapper.write(Response.java:768)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextResponse.write(ContextResponse.java:56)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpChannel.send(HttpChannelState.java:833)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpChannel.sendResponse(HttpChannelState.java:821)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpChannel.write(HttpChannelState.java:887)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpOutput.channelWrite(HttpOutput.java:294)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpOutput.channelWrite(HttpOutput.java:281)
        at org.eclipse.jetty.ee8.nested.HttpOutput.write(HttpOutput.java:753)
        at com.sonatype.analytics.internal.filter.CountingServletOutputStream.write(CountingServletOutputStream.java:35)
        at com.google.common.io.ByteStreams.copy(ByteStreams.java:122)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.view.Payload.copy(Payload.java:62)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.view.Content.copy(Content.java:113)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.DefaultHttpResponseSender.send(DefaultHttpResponseSender.java:79)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.common.http.ProHttpResponseSender.send(ProHttpResponseSender.java:74)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.ViewServlet.dispatchAndSend(ViewServlet.java:222)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.ViewServlet.doService(ViewServlet.java:168)
        at org.sonatype.nexus.repository.httpbridge.internal.ViewServlet.service(ViewServlet.java:122)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:750)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.doServiceImpl(ServletDefinition.java:293)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.doService(ServletDefinition.java:283)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.ServletDefinition.service(ServletDefinition.java:184)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.DynamicServletPipeline.service(DynamicServletPipeline.java:71)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.FilterChainInvocation.doFilter(FilterChainInvocation.java:85)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:61)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.java:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.java:66)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:154)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.FilterChainInvocation.doFilter(FilterChainInvocation.doFilter:82)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.executeChain:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal(AdviceFilter.doFilterInternal:137)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter:154)
        at com.google.inject.servlet.FilterChainInvocation.doFilter(FilterChainInvocation.doFilter:82)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.AdviceFilter.executeChain(AdviceFilter.executeChain:108)
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter:154);
        at org.apache.shiro.web.servlet.ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter(ProxiedFilterChain.doFilter:61)

The download takes ages to start and sometimes runs pretty slow.

After doing some research we increased the timeouts on our reverse proxy without any success. So I presume that might be on the Nexus side.

Thanks in advance.

post by mpiggott on Jul 7, 2025

That error indicates that something external to Nexus closed the connection to the client (e.g. load balancer, reverse proxy, etc)

HA is only available to PRO subscriptions so I’d suggest opening a support ticket.