[Solved] Apk update fails

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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The apk update command failed with code 8 :

ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/targets/mediatek/filogic/packages/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/base/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/targets/mediatek/filogic/kmods/6.12.62-1-6bb2fd3da9939ec80449118616aff3fd/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/luci/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/packages/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/routing/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/telephony/packages.adb: unexpected end of file
ERROR: wget: exited with error 4
WARNING: updating and opening https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.0-rc1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/video/packages.adb: unexpected end of file

I am using 25.12.0-rc1 on MT6000. I ran this previously:

apk update
apk add sudo ca-certificates ca-bundle curl wget wget-ssl tar unzip bind-tools

with no issues. No major config changes since then (except a few firewall rules). Wondering if I broke apk with installing any of the above packages or the reason is something different?

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You didn't damage the apk by installing those packages.

The error pattern (all feeds, unexpected EOF, wget error 4) indicates a network problem, typically IPv6. On 25.12.0-rc1, the apk tries IPv6 first; if the IPv6 path is broken or has MTU issues, .adb downloads are truncated. (It's just a guess so I apologize if it doesn't work. :sweat_smile: )

You can quickly verify this by temporarily disabling IPv6:

ifdown wan6; apk update; ifup wan6

If that works, the cause is IPv6.

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You installed BIND?

(Have you verified it's working?)

wget was missing?

Is this a custom firmware image?

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By default wget is provided by uclient-fetch, which is not a full wget implementation.

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No bind itself, only bind-tools.

Regular OpenWrt image.

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Thanks - you set me digging in the right direction! Ex-post this was rather obvious mistake - I forgot to bind AGH to the router itself in AGH yaml file :shushing_face:, and there was no DNS available for the router. 127.0.0.1 was the missing bit in /opt/AdGuardHome/AdGuardHome.yaml:

dns:
  bind_hosts:
    - 127.0.0.1
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can you show us your current configuration just to understand (please hide public ip addresses/passwords/mac address), obviously if you want

cat /etc/config/network