7.10 alternate CD installer - apt hangs when network not available

[Milan Knizek]

I have noticed similar bugs have been reported for earlier versions of ubuntu, too.

In my case, I have filled IP addresses during installation of gutsy - however, these were assigned to eth0 (unused ethernet card on my PC) and I had no chance to assign it to eth1 (usb wifi dongle, works fine with wpa_supplicant).

Installation continued fine until apt wanted to download package lists from internet repositories. According to log, it just tried various files with timeout of cca 1 minute - I have given up waiting after 10 minutes, started installation again and disabled network.

Others may have problem that LAN works, but external internet is temporarily unavailable. From what ever reason.

It would be great, if the installation script checks availability of the internet repositories before letting apt do its work. Or at least the user intervention should be possible.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Is this with the alternate CD installer?

[Milan Knizek (knizek)]

Yes, the alternate i386 install cd.
I had to use it due to 256MB RAM only.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Assigning to debian-installer. Two similar bugs I know of are bug #105754 and bug #154550.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. I'm collecting similar reports as bug 154095, which should be fixed in Hardy soon.