I think it happens the same to me. I try to access a ftp mirror and I get the same error. With a http mirror works fine.

Started GET "/unattended/provision" for 82.x.x.x at Sat Dec 22 11:21:41 +0100 2012
Processing by UnattendedController#provision as HTML
Found bl392.xxx.com
Remove puppet certificate for bl392.xxx.com
Adding autosign entry for bl392.xxx.com
Operation FAILED: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/generic.rb:1097:in `select': expected of components of URI::FTP (scheme, userinfo, host, port, path, typecode)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 437ms

This is the template used:

default Ubuntu
label Ubuntu
kernel <%= @kernel >
append initrd=<= @initrd > interface=eth0 url=<= foreman_url("provision")%> ramdisk_size=10800 root=/dev/rd/0 rw auto=true priority=critical hostname=<%= @host.name %> language=es locale=es_ES.UTF-8 console-setup/ask_detect=false keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=es console-keymaps-es/keymap=es-latin1-nodeadkeys keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=es debian-installer/country=ES debian-installer/fb=false

Both machines are ubuntu 12 LTS.

NoName NoSurname wrote:

When I try to configure the Ubuntu media installation with a ftp mirror (ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/ubuntu for example) I've the following error (in production.log) with the spoof :

ArgumentError (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/generic.rb:1097:in `select': expected of components of URI::FTP (scheme, userinfo, host, port, path, typecode)):
app/controllers/unattended_controller.rb:164:in `load_template_vars'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/generic.rb:1093:in `collect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/generic.rb:1093:in `select'
app/models/debian.rb:10:in `preseed_path'
app/controllers/unattended_controller.rb:181:in `preseed_attributes'
(eval):1:in `load_template_vars'
app/controllers/unattended_controller.rb:164:in `load_template_vars'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'

Rendering /usr/share/foreman/public/500.html (500 Internal Server Error)

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The installation works well if I use a http mirror. I didn't tested if it's the same with any other linux distrib...

Thanks for looking into this.

This problem is still exist:
2016-04-07T17:24:08 [app] [W] Action failed | ArgumentError: expected of components of URI::FTP (scheme, userinfo, host, port, path, typecode) | /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/uri/generic.rb:1559:in `block in select' | /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/uri/generic.rb:1555:in `collect' | /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/uri/generic.rb:1555:in `select' | /usr/share/foreman/app/models/operatingsystems/debian.rb:13:in `preseed_path' | /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/renderer.rb:169:in `preseed_attributes' | /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/renderer.rb:122:in `load_template_vars' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:429:in `block in make_lambda' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:143:in `call' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:143:in `block in halting_and_conditional' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:501:in `call' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:501:in `block in call' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:501:in `each' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:501:in `call' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:495:in `block (2 levels) in around' | /usr/share/foreman/vendor/ruby/2.1.0/gems/activesupport-4.1.14.2/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb:306:in `call'
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