Bug#1008038: Debian Edu Installer freezes for a long time if tjener.intern is defined in DNS but not reachable

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Package: debian-edu-install
Severity: normal
Version: 2.12.3

I just stumbled over Debian Edu installer problem with some peculiar  
DNS setup.

The peculiar DNS setup. I have tjener.intern defined on my local  
machine in /etc/hosts (and run dnsmasq locally to serve libvirt VMs.  
Thus, tjener.intern resolves to 10.0.2.2 here when I try to do a test  
installation (of a Debian Edu Standalone machine), but the 10.0.2.2 is  
not reachable here locally. (I use the "10.0.2.2 tjener.intern tjener"  
entry only when I am on a school's network).

The observation with this setup is that the Debian Edu installer tries  
(in debian-edu-profile script) to "wget  
http://tjener/debian-edu-install.dat"; and fails on this. Default  
timeout in wget is 900s (15min) and default retry value is 20, so the  
installer here hangs 900x20 seconds.

I'd suggest adding --tries 2 --timeout 2 (two connection attempts,  
wait for 2seconds each attempt) to the wget call in the  
debian-edu-profile script.

Mike


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