Default hostname needed for PowerPC
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
choose-mirror (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
This has been raised before, notably in this bug https:/
There have been a number of PowerPC bugs raised against the Ubiquity package, such as, https:/
All the bugs share a similar problem:
The relevant log lines from UbiquitySyslog.txt, are:
Nov 5 12:40:45 ubuntu choose-
Nov 5 12:40:45 ubuntu choose-
From looking at the code of choose-mirror where these debug lines are outputted, it appears the hostname is set to "mirror". It should be set to "ports.ubuntu.com" I think.
Poking around a bit, I've been trying to figure out where this comes from. A lot of the code relating to the debian-installer I don't understand I'm afraid. My best guess is the problem lies in the file: choose-
I think the hostname part of it should be ammened to something like this:
Template: mirror/
Type: string
Default: mirror
Default[powerpc]: ports.ubuntu.com
A similar alteration can be made to the file: choose-
From reading the Apple forum today it appears the alternate CD is also still affected by the problem: http://
I don't know if it is significant, but all the bug reports are from people outside the UK. A UK user a few days ago said they did not get a mirror error with the 12.04 live CD, but the live/desktop installer did freeze on them.
Anyway, I hope this helps! Thanks for taking the time to read this!
Changed in choose-mirror (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Thanks for your report. This isn't the right fix, though - the intent of "Default: mirror" there was to change the default in the case where you ask to use a custom mirror. If it's being used when you didn't ask for a custom mirror, then something else is wrong and whatever that something else is needs to be tracked down instead.
The hint that this may be specific to users outside the UK may very well be instructive. I'm in the UK myself and I tend to select the UK in the installer without really thinking about it.