I am having a problem when trying to add any additional repositories in my Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS running on a VM in ESXi 7. The installation is fresh.

I'm facing the below problem when I try to sudo apt update

...

Reading package lists... Done                        

E: Method https has died unexpectedly!

E: Sub-process https received signal 4.

This happens whenever I try to add repositories. I was trying to add Docker and Sublime text repositories as below:

echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

When I remove the contents of sources.list.d, sudo apt update works fine.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks

Edit:

On a related note, I also can't clone any repo. I tried using curl, wget and git clone. All these commands, give me the error:

error: git-remote-https died of signal 4