DOCA Host online deb installation on Ubuntu fails

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When trying to install the DOCA_OFED 3.1.0 package on Ubuntu 25, it fails:

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky InRelease
Hit:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-security InRelease
Ign:5 https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.1.0/ubuntu25.04/x86_64 ./ InRelease
0% \[Waiting for headers\]https: ./methods/connect.cc:892: virtual bool TlsFd::HasPending(): Assertion \`ssl’ failed.
Get:6 https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.1.0/ubuntu25.04/x86_64 ./ Release \[444 B\]
Reading package lists… Done
E: Method https has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process https received signal 6.

I’ve followed the steps described on the download page, which are as follows:

export DOCA_URL="https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.1.0/ubuntu25.04/x86_64/"
BASE_URL=$([ "${DOCA_PREPUBLISH:-false}" = "true" ] && echo https://doca-repo-prod.nvidia.com/public/repo/doca || echo https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca)
DOCA_SUFFIX=${DOCA_URL#*public/repo/doca/}; DOCA_URL="$BASE_URL/$DOCA_SUFFIX"
curl $BASE_URL/GPG-KEY-Mellanox.pub | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/GPG-KEY-Mellanox.pub
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/GPG-KEY-Mellanox.pub] $DOCA_URL ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/doca.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install doca-ofed

By switching the repo link in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/doca.list from https to http, it runs successfully.

Any idea who or what is wrong here?

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https: ./methods/connect.cc:892: virtual bool TlsFd::HasPending(): Assertion `ssl’ failed.

E: Method https has died unexpectedly!

E: Sub-process https received signal 6

indicates that apt itself is crashing when trying to talk to the Mellanox DOCA repo over HTTPS. This usually happens due to:

  1. Repository SSL misconfiguration – The server might be using a TLS version, cipher, or certificate that triggers a crash in the local apt library.

  2. Broken apt or libssl libraries – If apt or the SSL libraries it depends on (libssl, gnutls, libcurl) are mismatched or broken.

  3. DOCA repo configuration – Sometimes the trailing ./ in the repo URL confuses apt for newer versions.

Try updating CA certificates

sudo apt update

sudo apt install --reinstall ca-certificates

sudo update-ca-certificates

If issue persists and you want to have it further investigated please open a support case with a valid support contract to “NBU-SupportAdmin Networking-support@nvidia.com” or “https://enterprise-support.nvidia.com/s/create-case”.

Or continue to use http.

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It seems like these commands actually helped and apt update runs without an error now:

# apt update
Hit:1 https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2204/x86_64  InRelease
Hit:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky InRelease                                                     
Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-updates InRelease                                             
Hit:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-backports InRelease                                           
Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-security InRelease                                              
Ign:6 https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.1.0/ubuntu25.04/x86_64 ./ InRelease  
Hit:7 https://linux.mellanox.com/public/repo/doca/3.1.0/ubuntu25.04/x86_64 ./ Release

Thanks! But since this did not work out of the box with the installation steps from the official NVIDIA page, I wonder if you should update either the installation steps or the repository.

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