[Bug 880510] [NEW] oneiric installer doesn't work in close lan and with nfsroot

[Brian J. Murrell]

Public bug reported:

The oneiric installer on the livecd refuses to work in a closed LAN
environment.  Upon initializing, the installer does a test to see if it
can reach an outside host and that fails because it's on a closed LAN
and refuses to allow the installation to continue due to that.  The apt
sources list in the live environment have already been changed to point
to a local server however.

Additionally, I want to upgrade an NFS root which I have mounted on
/target before starting the ubiquity installer.  But again, the
installer prevents me from upgrading it because it can't find any local
disk.  There is none.  The system is on an NFSroot (which has already
been mounted and is ready for upgrading.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sun Oct 23 19:16:50 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity ubiquity-2.8.7

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Title:
  oneiric installer doesn't work in close lan and with nfsroot

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The oneiric installer on the livecd refuses to work in a closed LAN
  environment.  Upon initializing, the installer does a test to see if
  it can reach an outside host and that fails because it's on a closed
  LAN and refuses to allow the installation to continue due to that.
  The apt sources list in the live environment have already been changed
  to point to a local server however.

  Additionally, I want to upgrade an NFS root which I have mounted on
  /target before starting the ubiquity installer.  But again, the
  installer prevents me from upgrading it because it can't find any
  local disk.  There is none.  The system is on an NFSroot (which has
  already been mounted and is ready for upgrading.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Sun Oct 23 19:16:50 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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