[Bug 1674532] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 broken during PXE boot

2017-03-21 Thread Eric Horne
is it valid to run the broken install, when it breaks manually pull down the new package that you pushed and install that, then let it continue with the installation? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 1674532] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 broken during PXE boot

2017-03-21 Thread Eric Horne
The IP workaround doesn't work because archive.ubuntu.com is a virutal host (ie it needs the Host: header in the HTTP request). What I did to work around that was add this to my preseed.cfg. Adjust as needed d-i preseed/early_command string echo "91.189.88.161 archive.ubuntu.com" >> /etc/hosts &&

[Bug 1674532] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 broken during PXE boot

2017-03-21 Thread Eric Horne
I believe changing the preseed.cfg file to use an IP address for the archive instead of the domain name will work around this; it's not a good long term solution since it messes up ubuntu's dns load balancing, but if you need to perform an install this might work. I'm in the process of verifying th

[Bug 1674532] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 broken during PXE boot

2017-03-20 Thread Eric Horne
"Suddenly" refers to the log in which it is happily downloading stuff from the archive and after successfully downloading and installing the libc6_2.19-0ubuntu6.10 package it is unable to download the next package because it can no longer resolve the archive.ubuntu.com name that it had been resolvi

[Bug 1674532] [NEW] Ubuntu 14.04 broken during PXE boot

2017-03-20 Thread Eric Horne
Public bug reported: After installing the libc6_2.19-0ubuntu6.10_amd64_udeb package during the automated install of ubuntu 14.04.5, the system was suddenly unable to resolve hostnames via dns. Installing -0ubuntu6.9 resolved the issue. Reinstalling -ubuntu6.10 broke the system again. I note that