Fwd: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installer issues with PPC Ocelot

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi QA,

for my limited knowledge, this seems like a problem in the build engine as
it is affecting both lubuntu & ubuntu. I had previously pointed the OP to
the bug affecting the 'mirror' problem.
Should this be filed against Ubiquity or the build system, or something
else? I'm certain that he would than happy to provide further information on
what the system is doing etc if asked.

@ Walter, as you can see, I've asked the QA team to issue guidance as to
where best to report the problem. Thanks for taking the time to report the
issue, I hope to have good news for you soon.

Regards,

Phill.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Walter Lapchynski <carsrcoffins23 at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Subject: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installer issues with PPC Ocelot
To: "lubuntu-desktop at lists.launchpad.net" <
lubuntu-desktop at lists.launchpad.net>


I was SO excited to see Lubuntu on Canonical with an Ocelot version. My 12"
PowerBook G4 has been waiting forever for this.

Unfortunately, installation isn't going well. Desktop installer needed a
bunch of upgrades (including to pygobject which caused an error) and then
failed because of a supposedly fixed error in choose-mirror where "mirror"
is the default rather than "ports.ubuntu.com."

This error IS fixed in x86 Ocelot but not in PPC. Standard Ubuntu PPC Ocelot
has the same issue, so this is not just Lubuntu.

I have tried to run Ubiquity without the network connection and yet still
the installer attempts to download packages.

I tried the alternate install CD and it boots fine, but when it comes to
detecting the cdrom, it fails. The BusyBox shell fails to reveal mention of
the cdrom anywhere: syslog, dmesg, /proc, /dev, etc. I tried to try again
many times over to no avail.

Interestingly, the latest Debian Squeeze PPC small CD, which I believe has
the same installer, has no problems detecting the cdrom.

So I don't know where to go next but I'm hoping that maybe the choose-mirror
fix can be applied to the PPC version or that perhaps there may be some
config file (like sources.list but for choose-mirror) I could manually edit.
Ideas?

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