sean darcy wrote: > Ante Karamatić wrote: >> U Sub, 28. 02. 2009., u 13:03 -0500, sean darcy je napisao/la: >> >>> I don't understand why it tries to use //us.archive.ubuntu.com. >> I've just installed feisty in my virtual system, and I'll be able to >> check upgrade problems in couple of hours. So, get back later for >> information. >> >> >> > Thanks. In the mean time I've think I've narrowed it down. > > Each time it runs do-release-upgrade sticks the name of the local mirror in: > > cat sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.list > # sources.list fragment for pre-requists (one with countrymirror, one > fallback) > deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports > main/debian-installer > > It'll overwrite whatever is there. And, of course, > us.archive.ubuntu.com does have feisty. > > I tried the trick in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeProblems > of setting the ip address for us.archive.ubuntu.com to the address for > old-releases. That didn't work because because the nslookup ip address > doesn't actually resolve to the same place as old-releases.ubuntu.com. > Probably vhost. > > sean >
Turns out this is bug 153980, which has been known for over a year. And not fixed. seam -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
