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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks walter,

as soon as I get feed back from the QA people, I'll update everyone. If I
have nothing by monday night... I'll go nagging again :P As I said, i'm not
too sure where the bug should be reported. My instincts are as a build
failure, but I'm not a dev :P

Regards,

phill.



On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Walter Lapchynski
<carsrcoffins23@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> Thanks again, Phil. I did add this to the one place I know of, bug 756719
> in Launchpad. If it should go elsewhere or if more detail is required, let
> me know.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> On Oct 7, 2011 11:57 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi QA,
>
> for my limited knowledge, this seems like a problem in the build engine as
> it is affecting both lubuntu & ubuntu. I had previously pointed the OP to
> the bug affecting the 'mirror' problem.
> Should this be filed against Ubiquity or the build system, or something
> else? I'm certain that he would than happy to provide further information on
> what the system is doing etc if asked.
>
> @ Walter, as you can see, I've asked the QA team to issue guidance as to
> where best to report the problem. Thanks for taking the time to report the
> issue, I hope to have good news for you soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Walter Lapchynski <carsrcoffins23@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:12 PM
> Subject: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installer issues with PPC Ocelot
> To: "lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <
> lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> I was SO excited to see Lubuntu on Canonical with an Ocelot version. My 12"
> PowerBook G4 has been waiting forever for this.
>
> Unfortunately, installation isn't going well. Desktop installer needed a
> bunch of upgrades (including to pygobject which caused an error) and then
> failed because of a supposedly fixed error in choose-mirror where "mirror"
> is the default rather than "ports.ubuntu.com."
>
> This error IS fixed in x86 Ocelot but not in PPC. Standard Ubuntu PPC
> Ocelot has the same issue, so this is not just Lubuntu.
>
> I have tried to run Ubiquity without the network connection and yet still
> the installer attempts to download packages.
>
> I tried the alternate install CD and it boots fine, but when it comes to
> detecting the cdrom, it fails. The BusyBox shell fails to reveal mention of
> the cdrom anywhere: syslog, dmesg, /proc, /dev, etc. I tried to try again
> many times over to no avail.
>
> Interestingly, the latest Debian Squeeze PPC small CD, which I believe has
> the same installer, has no problems detecting the cdrom.
>
> So I don't know where to go next but I'm hoping that maybe the
> choose-mirror fix can be applied to the PPC version or that perhaps there
> may be some config file (like sources.list but for choose-mirror) I could
> manually edit. Ideas?
>
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