Bad archive mirror on PXE-boot

[Mattias Andersson]

I've manually added a node to my MAAS controller (which is running on Ubuntu 13.04) and it's been properly comissioned, but now it stops during the PXE-boot process with an error "Bad archive mirror".

Checking /var/log/syslog, I see the following has been reported:

Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Reading domain name returned via DHCP
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: DHCP domain name is ''
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Reading nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Read nameserver 129.16.1.53
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Read nameserver 129.16.2.53
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: State is now 1
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: State is now 2
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: State is now 5
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: INFO: DHCP hostname: "mat01.ita.chalmers.se"
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: mat01.ita.chalmers.se is a valid FQDN
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: We have a real FQDN
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Preseeding domain as well: ita.chalmers.se
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: State is now 6
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Network config complete
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: No interface given; clearing /etc/network/interfaces
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Writing informative header
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Success!
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Writing loopback interface
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Success!
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Writing DHCP stanza for eth0
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Writing SLAAC stanza for eth0
Oct 24 10:39:46 netcfg[2094]: DEBUG: Success!
Oct 24 10:39:47 main-menu[300]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Oct 24 10:39:47 main-menu[300]: INFO: Menu item 'network-preseed' selected
Oct 24 10:39:47 preseed: successfully loaded preseed file from http://129.16.50.142/MAAS/metadata/latest/by-id/node-e40826ae-3bbe-11e3-bc1e-005056beefff/?op=get_preseed
Oct 24 10:39:47 main-menu[300]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored)
Oct 24 10:39:47 main-menu[300]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' selected
Oct 24 10:39:47 anna-install: Queueing udeb apt-mirror-setup for later installation
Oct 24 10:39:47 choose-mirror[4243]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Oct 24 10:39:47 choose-mirror[4243]: INFO: mirror does not have any suite symlinks
Oct 24 10:39:47 choose-mirror[4243]: DEBUG: command: wget -q http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/Release -O - | grep -E '^(Suite|Codename):'
Oct 24 10:39:47 choose-mirror[4243]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (raring)

I get exactly the same error if I change distro to precise or quantal. I'm booting my node in VirtualBox.