Calamares crashes in calamares/modules/automirror/main.py in run() country = getcountry() with urlopen error [Errno 0] Error

lubuntu cosmic i386 20180927

Default installation in French from the live session, the installer crashes with:

 2018-09-27 - 18:42:22 [6]: Python Error:
 <class 'urllib.error.URLError'>
 <urlopen error [Errno 0] Error>
 File "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/automirror/main.py", line 124, in run
    country = getcountry()

  File "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/automirror/main.py", line 85, in getcountry
    with request.urlopen("https://ipapi.co/json") as url:

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 223, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 544, in _open
    '_open', req)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1361, in https_open
    context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1320, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: calamares-settings-ubuntu-common 21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-7.8-generic 4.18.5
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.396
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Thu Sep 27 18:53:20 2018
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta i386 (20180927)
SourcePackage: calamares-settings-ubuntu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)