kickstart too short timeouts, too little retries
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Installer has too short timeouts and too little retries for kickstart. Downloading packages and writing to disk should simply try again if not succeeding at first.
1) Started installing Breezy with kickstart on 17 computers
2) 4 computers failed to install, failed: base system, partitioning, grub-install, downloading from network
3) retried a couple of times
Every computer was installed successfully after manual retries.
If retrying fixes the problem, why can't the installer do it for me? When installing a lot of computers, it really does not matter (that much) if automatic installation takes 30 min or an hour and a half, but it really matters if I have to continously run around to manually force retries.
Suggestion: make installer more robust by adding more retries with growing timeouts.
There are too short timeouts in interactive installation too. On about 30 interactive Breezy cdrom installs on computers with dirty cdrom drives, most installations succeeded after retries. Installer could try harder to read cdroms.