Missing APT lists when provisioning amazon-ebs

[ghost]

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This issue was originally opened by @realies as hashicorp/packer#9966. It was migrated here as a result of the Packer plugin split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Overview of the Issue

Occasionally seeing this in the very first steps of provisioning an image. Running Packer for a second time usually resolves it.

amazon-ebs: E: can not open /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-backports_InRelease - fopen (2: No such file or directory)

Reproduction Steps

Run apt-get install on the latest ubuntu bionic AMI

Packer version

Packer v1.5.5

Simplified Packer Buildfile

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Operating system and Environment details

NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" EC2 t2.medium

[mcqj]

Seeing this with great regularity

[mabed-fr]

I see this frequently in the pipelines