[elbe-devel] initvm ERROR: Bad archive mirror

[Manuel Traut]

On 20:06 Wed 28 Sep     , Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> [Sorry if the -devel is the wrong list, I didn't find any public mailinglists on the mailman page]

currently we have no special user ML. It is absolutely ok to use this ML for this kind of questions.

> I've tried to get a new initvm running with elbe but fail, so far I've
> tried:
> - Elbe 1.1 (debian repo) with explicit 
>   <initvm>
>     ...
>     <mirror>
>   set to debian jessie

elbe 1.x uses wheezy for the initvm.  elbe 1.9.x jessie.
You can create jessie based targets with both elbe versions.

If you need to build stretch or sid targets, you need elbe 1.9.x
and you need to configure the initvm to use debootstrap from jessie-backports.

> - Elbe 1.9.11 (debian elbe-testing repo)
>   - with explicit XML
>   - and without explicit XML config for the image
> 
> All fail with the error message below.
> 
> I've also tried to build with Elbe 1.1 without an additional .xml --
> this works but seems to install debian wheezy (?)

that's a correct behaviour.

> Any advice how to further debug this?
> It seems that I don't get a network connection in the VM to the outside,
> the "Checking the Debian archive mirror" takes ages (it's much faster
> with Elbe 1.1 and the default settings when it's working).
> 
> Should I use elbe-testing or simply elbe for a jessie target with UBI?
> 
> Error message:
> ...
> Checking the Debian archive mirror  ... 25%... 50%... 75%... 100%
> Choose a mirror of the Debian archive
> -------------------------------------
> 
> !! ERROR: Bad archive mirror
> 
> An error has been detected while trying to use the specified Debian archive 
> mirror.

btw. we saw this also with httpredir as installation mirror for the initvm.

  Manuel