Proxmox installation "Trying to detect country"

Still happening on a fresh install on version 8.1. Got past it by going to a shell (Alt+F3 for me) then killing the traceroute process (kill -9 <pid>).
 
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First post N00b here

The installer aborted and dumped me to root shell. There was no traceroute running (checked px ax | grep [t]raceroute) returned nothing.

Weirdly, the first attempt to install went fine because despite not detecting a country because the installer failed and duped to the CLI installer which worked fine. This only happened once and able to reproduce it.

Was able to install via the CLI.
 
i have this error every few years.
today on a DL380p behind a AVM Fritzbox 7530 AX
all on latest firmware.
But the unplugged lan workaround works every time
 
Hi,

just to give an update: I have just sent out a patch-series, which should fix this issue: https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2024-February/061677.html

Unfortunately - as evidenced by this thread, it is a very peculiar issue and more or less pure luck to reproduce. But all in all, this at least fixes a very weird interaction, which seems to have been the cause of the issue.
 
I had the same problem in GUI mode, tried Debug mode GUI, evberything is asked, ran smooth
 
the last week i installed a few new pves
and did not get the problem.
i noticed that i so far exclusively got them on big servers like Dell Power Edge R310 or HP Pro Liont DL380p

maybe it has sth to do with their special hardware?
 
the last week i installed a few new pves
and did not get the problem.
i noticed that i so far exclusively got them on big servers like Dell Power Edge R310 or HP Pro Liont DL380p

maybe it has sth to do with their special hardware?
I encountered this issue for the first time installing ProxMox on a laptop with DHCP IP. However, this is also the first time I am installing ProxMox on other than server grade hardware.

Didn't have this problem when the network cable was unplugged. The ethernet adapter is a very common Realtek 8111/8168/8411 type.
 
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Still happening on a fresh install on version 8.1. Got past it by going to a shell (Alt+F3 for me) then killing the traceroute process (kill -9 <pid>).
Thanks for this, killing traceroute worked for me.
Strangely, the same traceroute command executed successfully when I switched to tty3 while the original was still stuck.
 

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