The app doesn't work in any either modes (download .iso or local .iso file)

[hreffero]

Hi,

1. If the app tries to download an .iso it links to the old files that not available anymore (as minor distro updates have been released since)

09-22 13:02 DEBUG CommonBackend: Could not find any ISO or CD, downloading one now 09-22 13:02 DEBUG TaskList: New task get_metalink 09-22 13:02 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running get_metalink... 09-22 13:02 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.list > C:\ubuntu\install 09-22 13:02 ERROR CommonBackend: Cannot download metalink file http://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.list err=[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found 09-22 13:02 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/pending/jammy-desktop-amd64.list > C:\ubuntu\install 09-22 13:02 ERROR CommonBackend: Cannot download metalink file2 http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/pending/jammy-desktop-amd64.list err=[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found 09-22 13:02 DEBUG TaskList: ### Finished get_metalink 09-22 13:02 ERROR TaskList: Cannot download the metalink and therefore the ISO

ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.list doesn't exist anymore since 22.04.01 released > https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.list

20.04.4 not a good option either cause 20.04.5 have been released (therefore the list files changed too)

2. If I try a local .iso option (say with the original 22.04 .iso) then the app hard crashes

09-21 19:03 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running get_iso... 09-21 19:03 DEBUG CommonBackend: Trying to use pre-specified ISO C:\Downloads\ubuntu-mate-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso 09-21 19:03 ERROR TaskList: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 618, in get_iso File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 510, in get_prespecified_iso UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) 09-21 19:03 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist 09-21 19:03 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist 09-21 19:03 ERROR root: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 58, in run File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 132, in select_task File "\lib\wubi\application.py", line 158, in run_installer File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__ File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 618, in get_iso File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\backend.py", line 510, in get_prespecified_iso UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

[hakuna-m]

There are two different issues:

09-21 19:03 ERROR TaskList: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xda in position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):

i.e, position 24 of the file name contains an Ú (u-acute)

File name "C:\Downloads\ubuntu-mate-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso" does not contain that letter but probably original file name does contain it. Windows path name for downloads often contains a prefix like "C:\Users\Windowsuser\Downloads".

The second issue occurs if there are new releases and the old release has been removed.

`09-22 13:02 ERROR CommonBackend: Cannot download metalink file http://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.list err=[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

But no problem, I will edit the file isolist.ini to replace old links with the working new ones.

[ttibau]

@hakuna-m have you updated the links in isolist.ini? Because I'm still receiving the 404 error message.

Thanks a lot for the support

[hakuna-m]

have you updated the links in isolist.ini?

I updated it last weekend but i pushed it to repository just few minutes ago: 22041r345