• Re: Debian installer - mirror does not support trixie

    From Sam S?rri@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, May 17, 2026 08:40:01
    I keep getting an error message that the mirror is not correct. On
    terminal 4 I can see a warning: mirror does not support the
    specified release (trixie).
    This error seems to happen when the system is connected to an IPv6-only network.
    The DHCP client bundled with the installer manages to get an IPv6
    reservation, however, it seems the installer fails to actually assign this
    IP to the network interface.
    Eventually, the system is left without connectivity to the public internet,
    and it thinks the mirror has failed, producing the error: "mirror does not support the specified release".
    There's a bug being tracked about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1072526 from June 2024. Unfortunately the fix is not yet merged into the stable version: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/-/merge_requests/18
    The solution is to either use an IPv4 network, or configure the IPv6
    connection manually, in the console, using the `ip` command. Modern LLMs
    should be helpful for crafting such commands.
    Sam/


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