sudo apt update fails with "E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process http received signal 7"

prime_mover

11/8/23, 12:12 PM

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and ran sudo apt update and upgrade and both were successful. After a reboot, when I tried to run apt update, I got the following error:

Reading package lists... Done
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received signal 7.
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received signal 7.
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received signal 7.
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received signal 7.
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/http did not start correctly
E: Method https has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process https received signal 7.
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/https did not start correctly
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/InRelease  
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/InRelease  
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-backports/InRelease  
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease  
E: Failed to fetch https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease  
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I looked at other Q&As, but they're not exactly the same. E.g. I could find answers for Sub-process http received signal 4 but for my error case Sub-process http received signal 7.

Any help is appreciated.

986

0 + 2

package-management

apt

22.04

popey

11/8/23, 12:59 PM

Do you have `apt-transport-https` installed?

prime_mover

11/10/23, 1:05 PM

@popey. Yes. But I am closing this question as it's not relevant. In my case, my disk was corrupted sou machine was behaving unexpectedly.

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: sudo apt update fails with "E: Method http has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process http received signal 7"

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.