Bug#1132413: udd: Ubuntu importers have failed since March 23, 2026

On 31/03/26 at 08:32 -0700, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: important
> 
> https://udd.debian.org/udd-status.cgi is reporting that these Ubuntu
> importers haven't run successfully since March 23, 2026:
> - archive-ubuntu
> - ubuntu-bugs
> - ubuntu-upload-history
> 
> The ubuntu-upload-history log excerpt includes:
> 
>   urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
>   ERROR:launchpad-ubuntu-changes:Error: Something broke badly.
> 
> I know that Launchpad has been having difficulty staying fully
> available and fast in the past few weeks.
> 
> I'd expect for udd to retry imports later after failure but the "next
> time" column also says March 23 so maybe these importers aren't
> retrying any more?

Hi,

Thanks for the report.

I think that the reason is that ubuntu-upload-history got stuck, and as
a result, blocked the other importers because they are in the same
"queue" in the UDD orchestrator.

I added a timeout. Let's see if this fixes the issue.

Lucas