Installation of 11.10 fails because it cannot find the correct mirror

[Paul Seeley]

Trying to do a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 on a Mac G4 PPC, boots fine from live disc image burnt to DVD, installer fails when it cannot locate the correct mirror, have tried installing with Internet disconnected, but same error regardless.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-powerpc 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-powerpc ppc
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: powerpc
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sun Oct 16 14:25:02 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release powerpc (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 158, in run
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_apt()
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 580, in configure_apt
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: raise install_misc.InstallStepError("AptSetup failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: AptSetup failed with code 141
Oct 16 04:24:31 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ojordan (ojordan12345)]

For any future people affected by this bug, I've added a possible workaround to the PowerPC Known Issues page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCKnownIssues . There is also included what I think is the cause (in the choose-mirror package), but this needs testing or somebody with more knowledge than me looking at it!

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks - bug 919356 is indeed closer to the mark. I'm going to mark this as a duplicate (although I know this one was filed first) and deal with it there.