[Bug 868668] Re: Installer hangs when progressing to timezone page for 45 sec

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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.8.4

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ubiquity (2.8.4) oneiric; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Handle the keyboard query window closed callback being fired twice
    (LP: #865493).
  * Allow focusing of labels when we're in the screen reader
    acessibility profile, so that Orca can read them
    (LP: #856782, LP: #856773).
  * Make sure we account for the size of the installation and swap
    partition when calculating the bounds for the partition resizer
    (LP: #769350).

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Don't install duplicate copies of console-setup-apply,
    localechooser-apply, and netcfg-wrapper.
  * Bump fallback Ubuntu version number in ubi-language to 11.10.
  * Update translations from Launchpad.
  * For cases where selecting a different location may imply a different
    dialect of the language, i.e. Portuguese and Chinese, take care to set
    LANG to something reflecting the location and
    LANGUAGE/LC_MESSAGES/LC_CTYPE/LC_COLLATE to something reflecting the
    language (LP: #590108).  This roughly matches the behaviour of
    language-selector.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: localechooser 2.37ubuntu2,
    partman-partitioning 81ubuntu3.

  [ Stéphane Graber ]
  * Update ubiquity-dm to export self.username as SUDO_USER.
    Make gsettings work properly later on during the install.
  * Whenever we call wget, set --tries=1 instead of the default
    of 20.
  * If we think we're offline, don't try to contact geoip or run
    rdate. (LP: #868668)
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>   Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:20:53 +0100

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Installer hangs when progressing to timezone page for 45 sec

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project oneiric series:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  ubiquity 2.8.1.
  This is on a network that requires an HTTP proxy to access anything.  The details below are relevant to oem-config mode, but likely apply to installation as well.

  Previous ubiquity versions in oneiric would hang indefinitely trying
  to progress through the timezone page.  This behavior has been
  resolved by fetching geoname data asynchronously in ubiquity 2.8.0.

  Unfortunately, on this network it still takes approximately 45 seconds
  for the user to progress to the timezone page from the language page
  before anything can be clicked.

  If the process listing is observed after clicking the button in the
  installer to proceed to the next page, both a rdate and a wget call
  can be observed.  Neither of these will succeed when connected to a
  network like this.

  I would suspect these synchronous calls will also cause problems on
  WLAN hotspots that require a browser captcha and slow internet
  connections.

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