Ubuntu
flashplugin-nonfree package

Flashplugin-installer forces to download extra files twice

Bug #1391347 reported by Henrik Skupin
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flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu release: all
Package version: 11.2.202.411ubuntu0.14.04.1

On our machines, which we host behind a firewall and proxy, we have seen constant popups of the update-notifier for "Failure to download extra data files" even when the Flashplugin-installer installation was successful.

I digged deeper into this problem and have seen that the triggers for update-notifier-common are getting executed by the installer, but there is no file created at /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer. So when `/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader` is executed via cron.daily, it tries to download the file again and if successful creates the above status file.

That means that for each and every installation / upgrade of Flash the extra files are getting downloaded twice from the remote location! This causes lots of extra traffic, and can fail due to the reason below.

The reason why it fails for us, are the proxy settings and that cron.daily does not inherit our proxy settings from /etc/environment. But that is already filed as another bug and should not be covered here.

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Henrik Skupin (z-mail-y) wrote :

Here the command to replicate that:

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer && sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader

This should skip the second download because it was already successful.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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