[Bug 919356] Re: Default hostname needed for PowerPC
Colin Watson
cjwatson at canonical.com
Fri Feb 10 12:57:58 UTC 2012
Sorry for all the bug status changes - I've been trying to make up my
mind.
I think this is a distinct bug from the last one, but while I initially
thought it was something wrong in ubiquity, I now think it probably
needs to be fixed in choose-mirror again. mirror/http/countries is
being inappropriately set to manual, by way of setting a value which
isn't in the choices list so it falls back to the default.
** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
** Changed in: choose-mirror (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** No longer affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: choose-mirror (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919356
Title:
Default hostname needed for PowerPC
Status in “choose-mirror” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
This has been raised before, notably in this bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/756719 , but
the fix released appears not to have solved the problem. From the
comments made in that bug, the problem is still in the alpha version
of 12.04.
There have been a number of PowerPC bugs raised against the Ubiquity
package, such as,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/875460 .
These are against 11.10 and 12.04.
All the bugs share a similar problem:
The relevant log lines from UbiquitySyslog.txt, are:
Nov 5 12:40:45 ubuntu choose-mirror[10217]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://mirror/ubuntu-ports//dists/precise/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Nov 5 12:40:45 ubuntu choose-mirror[10217]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (precise)]
From looking at the code of choose-mirror where these debug lines are
outputted, it appears the hostname is set to "mirror". It should be
set to "ports.ubuntu.com" I think.
Poking around a bit, I've been trying to figure out where this comes
from. A lot of the code relating to the debian-installer I don't
understand I'm afraid. My best guess is the problem lies in the file:
choose-mirror-bin.templates.http-in
I think the hostname part of it should be ammened to something like
this:
Template: mirror/http/hostname
Type: string
Default: mirror
Default[powerpc]: ports.ubuntu.com
A similar alteration can be made to the file: choose-mirror-
bin.templates.ftp.base-in
From reading the Apple forum today it appears the alternate CD is also
still affected by the problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1912207
I don't know if it is significant, but all the bug reports are from
people outside the UK. A UK user a few days ago said they did not get
a mirror error with the 12.04 live CD, but the live/desktop installer
did freeze on them.
Anyway, I hope this helps! Thanks for taking the time to read this!
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