Resolved debian jessie apt/system update error

[Matthl]

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Some problems occurred with the System Updates tool on your server vps.tothestars.de. Please resolve them manually.

Reason: 2019-03-26 06:30:46 INFO: pum is called with arguments: ['--list', '--repo-info', '--json']
2019-03-26 06:31:17 ERROR: W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/source/Sources 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, W:Failed to fetch http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
2019-03-26 06:31:17 ERROR: Exited with returncode 1.

I have an issue with apt updates here, running plesk onyx 17.8.11 update 46 on vps with debian jessie 8.11.
See error message above (expand). Possibly also with wheezy.

"jessie-updates" source on debian mirrors dosn't exist any more.
debian restructured the mirrors yesterday.
stretch might not be affected since strech-updates still exists on mirrors.

What's the recommended way to workaround?
Or will plesk receive an update?
Do other users experience the same issue?

 

[Failure404]

I have exactly the same issue.
I managed to get updates by changing

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

in /etc/apt/sources.list to

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

and using

apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update

However, I sincerely doubt that this is the proper way.
Are Jessie users screwed up now?

 

[321support]

Same problem for wheezy

apt-get update

Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy Release.gpg
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy Release                                                                           
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main Sources/DiffIndex                                                           
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg                                                             
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex                                                     
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release                                                                 
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex                                                     
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy Release.gpg                                                                   
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Sources                                                             
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages                                                     
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages                                                       
Found http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en                                                     
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy Release.gpg                                                                   
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy Release                                             
Found http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy Release.gpg                                         
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main Translation-it_IT                                       
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy Release                         
Found http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy Release                       
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main Translation-it             
Ign http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main Translation-en             
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all amd64 Packages           
Err http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main Sources                                         
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
Err http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages                 
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
Err http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net wheezy/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]
Found http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy/main amd64 Packages
Found http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy/main i386 Packages
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all amd64 Packages       
Found http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all i386 Packages         
Ign http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all Translation-it_IT         
Ign http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all Translation-it
Ign http://autoinstall.plesk.com wheezy/all Translation-en
Ign http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy/main Translation-it_IT
Ign http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy/main Translation-it
Ign http://updates.atomicorp.com wheezy/main Translation-en
W: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]

W: Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7 80]

E: Unable to download some files from the index: will be ignored or old ones will be used.

 

[Bitpalast]

Have you checked whether Debian still supports sources for wheezy for example? As far as I have seen they are only available in the archives any longer, but not on their standard resources. Maybe you need to change the sources.list as described in
Using Old Debian Versions In Your sources.list

 

[Matthl]

I'm surprised that there are so few with that problem. Has everyone upgraded to stretch already?
Maybe the majority hasn't noticed yet, their system isn't updating properly any more.

Maybe there is also a difference between wheezy, which is EOL (end of life) and jessie, which is in LTS. LTS - Debian Wiki
At least in the case of jessie i would expect an official answer or assistance from plesk since onyx supports it according to their software requirements. Software Requirements for Plesk

Furthermore I was planning to do a dist upgrade in the near future. I guess i would run into problems, trying to do that dist upgrade now with that errors?

 

[Matthl]

I just found this new support article in the help center:
After March 20, 2019, installation of system updates on Plesk servers with Debian 8 fails: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates: 404 Not Found

This seems to address the issue. Will try later. Maybe linking it here helps other users.