Cannot set proxy during installation

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Maverick Desktop i386/amd64

In lucid there was an advanced settings popup which allowed the user to set his proxy settings.
This is no more possible in Maverick.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 9 23:08:44 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

[Max Polk (maxpolk)]

During Live CD installation of Lubuntu Oneiric 11.10, this problem manifested itself TWICE, during the install and after the install.

1. During the install. During installation, the automatic updates sub-task that were attempted failed with timeouts due to the firewall blocking http, https, and ftp access except through a proxy. This did not prevent successful completion of the install.

2. After the install. It is possible to run Synaptic Package Manager, then Settings | Preferences | Network to get updates through the proxy. However, nowhere in Update Manager, then Settings, can you change the proxy, so you don't get any updates after your Lubuntu install. An ordinary user will not be able to update the system.

3. After the install. Running the default Chromium browser, then Preferences | Under the Hood | Change Proxy Settings, it states "When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not supported or there was a problem launching your system configuration," so you aren't able to browse the web. An ordinary user is blocked from web browsing.

An attempt was made to locate the needed package which allows the user to set the system network proxy. However, this package seems to be missing in Lubuntu, or could not be found after 2 hours of searching. The ubuntu-system-service seemed promising, as did gnome-control-center, however neither let me set the system network proxy.

Please add to Lubuntu the ability to set the system network proxy. I'm willing to test anything on the machine behind the proxy in question.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]