choose mirror failed with dapper current netinstall

[Djoume Salvetti]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Good Day,

breezy netinstall (TFTP) works fine.

I have download
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz

and extract it in the tftpd root directory.

Target computer boot fine, I choose server installation mode, select language and keyboard (french), DHCP works fine and then I've got an error message : An installation step failed [...] The failing step is : choose a mirror of the Ubuntu archive.

In the logs I found :
Configuring 'choose-mirror' failed with error code 134.

Restarting choose-mirror doesn't solved the problem.

Same problem If I don't choose server at boot.

I'd be happy to provide more info or test something if it could help.

Regards.
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Djoume SALVETTI

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Please attach the full /var/log/syslog file to this bug. You can extract it from the running installer by going back to the installer main menu and selecting "save debug logs".

[Djoume Salvetti (djoume)]

The installation failed as previously describe, I have restart once the choose mirror step and then save the log

[SwissSign Operations Team (ubuntu-bugs-swisssign)]

Problem is that /bin/choose-mirror tries to fetch the Release file from a remote mirror location. (This behavior is hard-coded)

I work with preseed files, netinstall over tftp-hpa, apache2 (own repository, with month freezes) and in spite of the fact that I give the mirror in the preseed file, choose-mirror tries elsewhere :

d-i mirror/http/hostname string 10.110.22.20
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu
d-i mirror/suite string dapper

d-i mirror/http/proxy string

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true

d-i time/zone string Europe/Zurich

d-i apt-setup/security_host http://10.110.22.20

d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string http:/10.110.22.20/ubuntu/SwissSign dapper main

d-i pkgsel/install-pattern ~t^ubuntu-standard$

d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note