HF spaces build - systematic apt error across different spaces

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Hey there! :alien_monster:

First, thanks for developping such an awesome stack, from transformers to gradio!

I’ve had an issue today on several gradio spaces that were building without errors before.

Near the end of the build process, after installing the python deps, when running the apt update:

--> RUN apt-get update &&     apt-get install -y htop vim nano gdb &&     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [55.4 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:4 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro InRelease [12.1 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages [8792 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 Packages [6924 B]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64 Packages [293 kB]
Get:8 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro/main amd64 Packages [13.7 kB]
Err:8 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro/main amd64 Packages
  File has unexpected size (13622 != 13677). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 104.20.45.190 443]
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:13677 [weak]
   - SHA512:3f746797398d968b69fcc1c3974947366d0677d5d54dde38f6f6ea6c7f667cfcb2ef43faf2dabd8f03e773906ec27436020ec6cf03bf8338ba550bafbdb7ca4a
   - SHA256:f1a08214fef665f12d8a0880b7d9bc4115b918b33c102c6fe29865a07eb3cdeb
   - SHA1:b0ba202ca989a6cc50743339482f90ad1fcf06c2 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:629f7da7c22506638f9e3ebb378dd211 [weak]
  Release file created at: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:15:32 +0000
Fetched 9358 kB in 1s (9835 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x/dists/nodistro/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2  File has unexpected size (13622 != 13677). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 104.20.45.190 443]
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:13677 [weak]
    - SHA512:3f746797398d968b69fcc1c3974947366d0677d5d54dde38f6f6ea6c7f667cfcb2ef43faf2dabd8f03e773906ec27436020ec6cf03bf8338ba550bafbdb7ca4a
    - SHA256:f1a08214fef665f12d8a0880b7d9bc4115b918b33c102c6fe29865a07eb3cdeb
    - SHA1:b0ba202ca989a6cc50743339482f90ad1fcf06c2 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:629f7da7c22506638f9e3ebb378dd211 [weak]
   Release file created at: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:15:32 +0000
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

--> ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c apt-get update &&     apt-get install -y htop vim nano gdb &&     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*" did not complete successfully: exit code: 100

Apparently the distribution file for node_20.x is somehow corrupted.

This happens on all the spaces I tried to rebuild in the last couple hours, for example:

Voilà voilà, GL with this one! :smiling_face_with_tear:

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After duplicating the Space, it built successfully and started running.

Probably some cache on the HF side is corrupted, so try factory rebuild → change the sdk: in README.md and revert → rebuild with an empty commit, etc.

Also, Python’s version has been changed from the default 3.10 to 3.13 at some point. If you want it to work as before, specify python_version: "3.10" in README.md.

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Thanks, it works! :smiley:

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