[22:40] <klausfiend> hi there, i'm running into a strange problem with the U16 preseed environment, where 'apt-install grub-pc' fails
[22:40] <klausfiend> i'm pretty sure it's not hardware-specific as i've seen it now on three different systems
[22:42] <klausfiend> i'm not yet able to reproduce the bug itself (the command it seems to be running just hangs when I try from the console)
[22:42] <klausfiend> but the error message is completely misleading (complaining about a failure to fetch from us.archive.ubuntu.com) because if i chroot into the /target and 'apt-get install grub-pc', there's no problem.
[22:43] <klausfiend> i haven't had a lot of luck googling for other reports of this behaviour as most of what's in Google for Ubuntu+GRUB involves "i don't know how to use a bootloader"