[Bug 1596279] Re: failure while configuring required package while installing Lubuntu alternate

[sudodus]

I tried to test the corresponding Ubuntu Xenial mini.iso (tried to
update July 1, but still old)

wget
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/installer-i386/20101020ubuntu451/images/netboot/mini.iso

#perms    	size	date      	time 	file-name
-rw-rw-r--	48M	2016-04-20	17:53	"mini.iso"
-rw-rw-r--	43	2016-07-01	15:58	"mini.md5"

$ md5sum mini.iso
574fd244f5069f086065a23f7bdf604f  mini.iso

and that mini.iso file works, is not affected by this bug, but it is
old, and the Lubuntu alternate file of that date was working too.

-o-
 
I also tested the corresponding Ubuntu Server Xenial iso file (tried to update, July 1, and the current file is a few days old, the same date as this bug report was created, so relevant)

zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/xenial/daily/current
/xenial-server-i386.iso.zsync

#perms    	size	date      	time 	file-name
-rw-------	665M	2016-06-26	05:56	"xenial-server-i386.iso"

$ md5sum xenial-server-i386.iso
07edb75c929ff966045db0139a01d3e8  xenial-server-i386.iso

and this Ubuntu Server iso file works, is not affected by this bug.

So it seems the bug resides in some Lubuntu package and makes
debootstrap file. If it were in debootstrap, the debian installer of
this Server iso file would also fail. Maybe debootstrap has changed
upstream, and needs a corresponding change in Lubuntu to work again.

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Title:
  failure while configuring required package while installing Lubuntu
  alternate

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Running the debian installer of Lubuntu Xenial amd64, there was this
  information:

  Window: Debootstrap warning: Failure while configuring required
  packages

  At screen #4: debootstrap: dpkg: error --install needs at least one
  package archive file argument

  New window: Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg --force-
  overwrite --force-confold -- skip-same-version --install

  -o-

  The checksum test (via the syslinux menu) was successful.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: debootstrap (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-27.46-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-27-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Sun Jun 26 09:27:54 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160624)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: debootstrap
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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