On 09/08/2026 at 00:21, Cristian Bottazzi wrote:
I accidentally selected ftp.uni-hannover.de, which was not the mirror I wanted, and used "Go Back" to return to the previous screen and correct my choice. At that point the installer became completely unresponsive: it stopped reacting to any input and showed no progress at all. I waited roughly 6 minutes to give it a chance to recover or to time out on its own, but nothing happened,
You did not wait long enough. It appears that GNU wget gives up after ~47 minutes by default. This is because the default retry count is 20, and the default connection time-out is ~2'10" (set by the system).
IMO, setting a much lower retry count in choose-mirror would be saner.
and I had to reset the machine.
FWIW, you could have switched to a shell in tty2 or tty3, run 'ps' to print the wget PID and 'kill' to terminate it. Then switch back to the installer screen (tty1 in text mode, tty5 in graphic mode) and select another mirror.
