0007255: Docker APT HTTP 400 - Kali Linux Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007255	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2021-07-08 17:47	2025-07-14 09:18

Reporter	__________	Assigned To	arnaudr
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	random
Status	closed	Resolution	unable to reproduce
Product Version	2021.2

Summary	0007255: Docker APT HTTP 400
Description	0000016 81.55 E: Failed to fetch http://http.kali.org/kali/pool/main/XXXXXXXXXX.deb 400 Bad Request [IP: 1..*** 80] 0000016 81.55 E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? when using apt-get install in a dockerfile, the following error consistently shows up. the package is always different, but it randomly happens without warning. fix missing doesn't assist.
Steps To Reproduce	run dockerfile, edit dockerfile, re-run dockerfile
Additional Information	example dockerfile FROM kalilinux/kali:latest as base RUN mkdir /home/username/ FROM base as install RUN apt-get update && apt-get install apache2 tmux -yq RUN apt-get update && apt-get install r-base nano python3-pandas python3-numpy r-cran-ggplot2 -yq --no-install-recommends FROM install as production COPY . /var/www/html/scripts CMD ["apachectl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-07-08 17:47	__________	New Issue
2021-07-14 08:53	arnaudr	Assigned To	=> arnaudr
2021-07-14 08:53	arnaudr	Status	new => assigned
2021-07-14 09:00	arnaudr	Note Added: 0014921
2021-07-14 09:02	arnaudr	Severity	major => minor
2021-07-14 09:02	arnaudr	Status	assigned => closed
2021-07-14 09:02	arnaudr	Resolution	open => unable to reproduce
2025-07-14 09:18	g0tmi1k	Priority	low => normal

arnaudr 2021-07-14 09:00 manager ~0014921	400 is client error: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/400 It seems that there's an issue on your side, maybe your connection is bad? Or is there something special with your network setup? Do you go through a proxy? This kind of things. Just to make sure, I tried to build your Dockerfile: no problem on my side, it succeeds.