Ubuntu
choose-mirror package

Software sources not selected

Bug #656037 reported by cariboo
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
choose-mirror (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10
Maverick
Fix Released
High
Colin Watson
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When doing a fresh install of the netbook edition without a network connection none of the Ubuntu Software repositories were selected

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
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 6 15:41:50 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101006.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

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cariboo (cariboo) wrote :
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

I installed while being connected to a wired network, and post-install I also did had neither main nor universe in my sources.list - in fact, I had only security.ubuntu.com.

Marking this as high importance - this basically breaks apt, and worse, we won't be able to fix this for users via an SRU because maverick-updates aren't in the sources!

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

I've just tried a second install, again with network connectivity but this time *not* selecting the "install updates from the internet" checkbox when installing.

Again, the sources.list after install contains only security.ubuntu.com; it's attached.

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

FWIW, I'm attaching the sources.list from a Kubuntu 32bit install done with network attached. Looks to me like all the right repos are present.

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

FWIW, I'm attaching the sources.list from a Kubuntu 32bit install done with network attached. Looks to me like all the right repos are present.

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

This looks to be because the netbook image doesn't have /etc/default-release or a preseeded value for the debconf suite, resulting in choose-mirror failing, resulting in source/apt-setup/generators/50mirror.ubuntu failing to write out the default sources.list.

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

Yep... that sounds reasonable...

I've attached sources.list from my latest ISO test (Ubuntu Netbook) which is, indeed, hosed.

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

I've just had the same error with the desktop amd64 cd; again, syslog indicates that 50mirror.ubuntu died because choose-mirror error'd out with “no default release specified”.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu Maverick) → choose-mirror (Ubuntu Maverick)
Changed in choose-mirror (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package choose-mirror - 2.33ubuntu3

---------------
choose-mirror (2.33ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Set mirror/suite Default to maverick (LP: #656037).
  * Accept a mirror/suite default even if the base system is on the CD
    (workaround for maverick).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:30:43 +0100

Changed in choose-mirror (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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