[Bug 1748169] Re: netboot image for 18.04 broken with unattended install

[martin]

Seeing the same behavior on our clients. Successful netboot installation
was possible before end of January (actual dates: Jan 12, 17, 19 & 30).
Preseeding stops at keyboard layout selection. The same preseed file
works with 16.04, 16.10, 17.04 & 17.10 (and 18.04 prior to February)

Also witnessed the libcrypto.so.1.0.0 error reported above for dhclient
when configuring networking manually. Looking at the installer log,
udhcpd also insisted on configuring the domain name for the systems
(which is detected properly via dhcp hostname as well as set via 'd-i
netcfg/get_domain string' as 'bad')

It appears the entire preseed file is ignored in the later netboot
images. This is quite critical.

If there is a snapshot of an earlier bionic install-tree somewhere (i.e,
from mid-January) this would be of interest.

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Title:
  netboot image for 18.04 broken with unattended install

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It looks like that the netboot image found in 
  "/ubuntu/dists/bionic/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64" upload date 2.2.2018 
  is broken for unattended install.

  With a preseed file, which was working with 16.04, 17.10 and 18.04 at the beginning the installation stop after trying to get network-configuration via dhcp.
  It looks like only a dhcp request for ip6 is done.

  Further it looks like, if there is a problem with dns resolution,
  because after a manual network-configuration is done, the download of
  the preseed-file (url from kernel startparameter) fails, with error-
  message >>tftp01<< not found.

  url from kernel startparameter:
  kernel ubuntu-installer/18.04/amd64/linux
  append auto=true priority=critical url=tftp://tftp01/preseed/systemd/preseed_2P_1F_2F.cfg vga=788 initrd=ubuntu-installer/18.04/amd64/initrd.gz -- quiet

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