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| James_Epp | I'm new to ubuntu deployment type of stuff. Please bear with me on this. I've got my preseed configured the way I want it. However, during select and install software it fails. "An installation step failed .. the failing step is: Select and install software". I'm using 'tasksel tasksel/first multiselect ubuntu-desktop' and 'd-i pkgsel/update-policy select unattended-upgrades'. Any ideas as to why it's failing? Most forums | 20:17 |
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| CarlFK | James_Epp: your post here cut off after "Most forums..." | 20:56 |
| James_Epp | Most forums online aren't that useful. (Sorry, using webIRC. Doesn't limit me well at all) | 20:57 |
| James_Epp | Another brief quesiton. Is the mailing list actively used? Looking through https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-installer/ it looks as though only linux updates are shown there. Is it worth joining? | 21:00 |
| James_Epp | New development: If I use the default preseed.cfg file hosted online, it all goes through perfectly. Any ideas as to where the problem lies? | 21:07 |
| CarlFK | James_Epp: i am kinda like you - I fumble around and it mostly works, till it doesn't, then I try to find help, which isn't always easy. | 21:29 |
| CarlFK | what default preseed.cfg ? | 21:29 |
| CarlFK | also: trusty, utopic, vivid? post your preseed file | 21:30 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: Trusty. Default preseed: [ https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt ] (I made a couple changes so it uses the right mirror and uses my cache). My modified preseed (currently) : https://bpaste.net/show/b498b80c4c97 | 21:33 |
| CarlFK | can you post a diff of the two? - 'obviously' (I hope) it is one of your changes that is causing problems | 21:34 |
| James_Epp | I would imagine from the error message my problem lies from lines 329:358 but I don't see one. | 21:34 |
| CarlFK | also, maybe look at my vivid problem and tell me if you have a guess: | 21:34 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: I apologize, I don't really know how :/ | 21:34 |
| CarlFK | Feb 1 19:25:35 main-menu[266]: WARNING **: Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error code 100 | 21:35 |
| CarlFK | alt/preseed install on vivid stopped. looking at syslog I can't figure out why: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10003694/ | 21:35 |
| CarlFK | don't know how to diff? | 21:35 |
| James_Epp | Never had to. | 21:35 |
| CarlFK | what is the name of your presseed file? | 21:36 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: Name of it? I named it 16preseed.cfg . Best diff I can give you: https://www.diffchecker.com/j5lhqznt | 21:37 |
| CarlFK | cd into the dir with 16preseed.cfg, run: diff 16preseed.cfg example-preseed.txt | 21:38 |
| CarlFK | or diff 16preseed.cfg /path/to/it/example-preseed.txt | 21:38 |
| CarlFK | that should figure out what you changed, pastebin that | 21:39 |
| CarlFK | oh, I see the red/green now.. good enough | 21:39 |
| James_Epp | give me a minute. @ work on my crappy windows system. Need to ssh in. | 21:39 |
| James_Epp | https://bpaste.net/show/fe1eea3b5f68 | 21:41 |
| CarlFK | James_Epp: # out d-i preseed/late_command string echo hi > /target/home/user/hi.txt | 21:55 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: I'll try. I thought that happened WAY later in the process, but I'll remove and retry. Be back in 10 or 15 minutes. | 21:55 |
| CarlFK | or add it to the example-preseed.txt | 21:55 |
| CarlFK | its the top of the list of things that look suspicious | 21:56 |
| CarlFK | d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://192.168.16.1:3128 | 21:56 |
| CarlFK | what sort of proxy is it? | 21:56 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: I am running a pfSense router. I have the squid3 cache package installed. | 21:57 |
| CarlFK | probably fine. I use http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/squid-deb-proxy | 22:02 |
| CarlFK | it is squd with some config files tuned for .deb s | 22:02 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: A question on that proxy setting. Does it persist right through to the installation to disk or is it only for the installer? | 22:02 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: Using squid-deb-proxy looks nice, but I want minimal infrastructure. | 22:03 |
| CarlFK | ah right.. it gets set into the target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30-autoproxy (or something) that I take out in the late command script | 22:04 |
| CarlFK | James_Epp: https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/setup/nodes/pxe/shaz/var/www/lc/late.sh#L177 | 22:09 |
| CarlFK | and you can click around to see my setup. | 22:10 |
| James_Epp | Thx for the resources. Still failing in my installations however. | 22:14 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: ^^ | 22:14 |
| CarlFK | James_Epp: set Canada back to d-i mirror/country string manual | 22:16 |
| CarlFK | I seem to remember messing that up years ago | 22:16 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: I wanted this to be no-touch. Won't that present the user selection dialogue? | 22:16 |
| CarlFK | no | 22:17 |
| CarlFK | er, let me check mine | 22:17 |
| CarlFK | which is no touch... | 22:17 |
| CarlFK | https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/setup/nodes/pxe/shaz/var/www/d-i/trusty/preseed_local.cfg#L23 | 22:18 |
| James_Epp | good enough then. | 22:19 |
| James_Epp | I hope it doesn't change the source of the mirror or else this test is going to take quite a whiel. | 22:19 |
| CarlFK | you specify the mirror, so it should be fine | 22:20 |
| James_Epp | oh yeah. totes. | 22:20 |
| CarlFK | hmm.. you specify 2 things.... | 22:21 |
| CarlFK | d-i mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com | 22:21 |
| CarlFK | d-i mirror/http/mirror select archive.ubuntu.com | 22:21 |
| James_Epp | does that conflict? | 22:21 |
| CarlFK | du no. I seem to remember mirror/country conflicting with setting .. so maybe? play around with the permutations ;) | 22:22 |
| CarlFK | I got this working around 5 years ago and fix it when it breaks | 22:22 |
| James_Epp | ugh man. I wish the docs were just a bit more clear about the affects. Thanks for all the wisdom. I have to take off for a while, but I'll be back soonish. Thanks. | 22:22 |
| CarlFK | so most of the stuff I don't remember the why, just that it worked last time I tried | 22:23 |
| CarlFK | see ya | 22:23 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: Still failing even with that change. I'm really unsure as to what the problem is at this point. Let me do another diff. | 23:26 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: IDK if you're still active, but I'll keep posting progress. Going to test this next. [ https://www.diffchecker.com/ffitcyun ] Original is on left, mine on the right. | 23:31 |
| CarlFK | looking... | 23:31 |
| CarlFK | James_Epp: all I can suggest is what I would do: start with example-preseed.txt, and change a few things at a time, test. start with the proxy so that the rest can use it. | 23:34 |
| James_Epp | CarlFK: If this variant fails I'll try that. | 23:34 |
| CarlFK | also.. to make your file easier to read over, you should trim out all the stuff from example-preseed.txt that you aren't using. I was surprised how little was left when I did mine. | 23:37 |
| CarlFK | when I want to modify a line, Ill copy it and ### one as a reminder what the original working one was | 23:37 |
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