Install defaults to "main server" rather than a mirror

[fossfreedom]

Using Ubuntu Budgie 23.10 beta + the new installer

I noted after install in software-properties-gtk that the default server to download from was "Main Server".

I was expecting one of the UK mirrors to be the default.

Indeed - installing from our legacy ISO beta, after install the download offered the "Server for the United Kingdom"

attached is the /var/log/installer folder that has been tar'd

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2036810

[Olivier Gayot (ogayot)]

Hello @fossfreedom,

From the logs standpoint, everything looks correct. During the install, everything that needed downloading got downloaded from http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com.

I also did an install of Ubuntu budgie daily to further check what /etc/apt looks like in the target system. And it looked good (*) as well. The country mirror is used.

It is actually a software-properties bug when the system is configured with deb822 sources. See bug 2033949.

.. which caused the migration to deb822 sources to be pushed back.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-September/042791.html

This PR should fix the issue by disabling deb822 sources:

https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/pull/1801

(*) except that the -security pocket is not accessed through security.ubuntu.com - see bug 2033977

Overall, I expect that taking a more recent revision of the ubuntu-desktop-installer should solve the issues.

Thanks,
Olivier

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Thx Olivier for the feedback. Hopefully ubuntu-desktop-installer will pick up the subiquity changes soon - and dependabot then creates a merge request for ubuntu-budgie-installer.

We'll need to release note the software-properties bug probably or at least highlight the relevant bits from the ubuntu release notes.