[Bug 600789] Re: "d-i mirror/*" does not work on presseding

[Dixon Dick]

My PXE boot attempts are failing on oneiric with same error. The
mirror/country string is set to manual, this does not fix the problem.
Also tried an apt-mirror to local, still failed. Also tried the oneiric
ISO mounted in /var/www/ubuntu, still failed. Two days at this, still
can't PXE boot.

The failing command is:

wget -q http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/Release -O - |
grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'

When I execute this same command on the machine trying to PXE it
returns:

Suite: oneiric
Codename: oneiric

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Title:
  "d-i mirror/*" does not work on presseding

Status in “choose-mirror” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debian-installer

  We have been using automated installs for the QA UEC rig since
  beginning of the Lucid cycle. Specific to this bug, we set 'd-i
  mirror/*" to point to a local server with the ISO image. Today I tried
  my first UEC install for Maverick (Alpha 2). The installation failed
  with the following relevant lines:

  Jul  1 14:52:46 main-menu[713]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' selected
  Jul  1 14:52:46 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later installation
  Jul  1 14:52:46 choose-mirror[3103]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//dists/maverick/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
  Jul  1 14:53:07 choose-mirror[3103]: INFO: mirror does not have any suite symlinks
  Jul  1 14:53:07 choose-mirror[3103]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu//dists/maverick/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
  Jul  1 14:53:28 choose-mirror[3103]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (maverick)
  Jul  1 14:56:49 main-menu[713]: (process:3096): wget: cannot connect to remote host (194.169.254.10): Connection timed out
  Jul  1 14:56:49 main-menu[713]: (process:3096): wget: cannot connect to remote host (194.169.254.10): Connection timed out
  Jul  1 14:56:49 main-menu[713]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured.

  Of course, after this error, automation was shot.

  I looked around, but could not find any reference to a change in
  debian-installer that would affect this. Given the first line above, I
  decided to change all references to 'd-i mirror/' to 'd-i choose-
  mirror/'. I was then able to PXE-boot and install without any further
  (visible) errors.

  I am also attaching 'installer.tar', a tarball of the successful
  install, and 'failed-d-i-syslog.log', the syslog of a failed install
  with the above problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.9-generic 2.6.35-rc3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 48216eabc5cef2006b8478621d301a28
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Thu Jul  1 15:15:09 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1721
  MemoryUsage:
   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:       3796196    3520572     275624          0     124924    2251160
   -/+ buffers/cache:    1144488    2651708
   Swap:      3903484       2940    3900544
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-6-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: debian-installer
  dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A07
  dmi.board.name: 0RT951
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd04/21/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1721:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0RT951:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1721
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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