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

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 5:17=E2=80=AFPM Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> w=
rote:
> On 31/03/26 at 08:32 -0700, Jeremy B=C3=ADcha wrote:
> > 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.

ubuntu_upload_history is still lagging behind (and Launchpad is
struggling today!), but the other Ubuntu jobs are up-to-date or close
enough to it. It's those other jobs that are powering the dashboards
that I use so the situation is much better for me now.

Thank you,
Jeremy B=C3=ADcha