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get-docker.sh: curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell

Research direction

Start with get-docker.sh and the curl command that downloads https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg. Investigate the reported intermittent OpenSSL unexpected EOF during installation and determine a reproducible failure case and an appropriate way to consider the installation complete.

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Description

Hello,

I run the get-docker.sh script quite often and occasionally hit this issue:

2025/03/17 09:09:27 Downloading get-docker.sh.
2025-03-17 09:09:28 URL:https://get.docker.com/ [22592/22592] -> "/tmp/get-docker.sh" [1]
2025/03/17 09:09:28 Installing docker.
# Executing docker install script, commit: 4c94a56999e10efcf48c5b8e3f6afea464f9108e
+ sh -c apt-get -qq update >/dev/null
+ sh -c DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -qq install ca-certificates curl >/dev/null
+ sh -c install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
+ sh -c curl -fsSL "https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg" -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: error:0A000126:SSL routines::unexpected eof while reading, errno 0
Error@118: Installing docker via get-docker.sh failed.
Cloud-init v. 24.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 finished at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:09:42 +0000. Datasource DataSourceNoCloud [seed=/dev/vdd].  Up 126.09 seconds

Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks.

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