[Bug 997200] Re: update checks can't understand hotel web access pages

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Confirming; we even have a nice fix for this at the NetworkManager level
via connectivity checking, but it was new and disruptive enough to not
make it in 12.04 -- we're going to be enabling this in the development
release very very soon.

Also confirming for update-manager: I've run into the same issue before
as well. update-manager/apt ought to distinguish between the type of
data being recovered by the downloads, and have a way to gracefully
handle these evil captive portals.

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => quantal-alpha-1

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Title:
  update checks can't understand hotel web access pages

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when
  connecting to the network.  Some combination of network manager and
  update manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to
  handle this, and update are left in a non-working state after not
  being able to read package headers file.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed May  9 17:27:02 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  IpRoute:
   default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0  proto static 
   10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.155.38.82  metric 2 
   169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0  scope link  metric 1000
  NetworkManager.state:
   [main]
   NetworkingEnabled=true
   WirelessEnabled=true
   WWANEnabled=true
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: network-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago)
  nmcli-dev:
   DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         DBUS-PATH                                  
   wlan0      802-11-wireless   connected     /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1  
   eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
  nmcli-nm:
   RUNNING         VERSION    STATE           NET-ENABLED   WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE   WWAN      
   running         0.9.4.0    connected       enabled       enabled         enabled    enabled         disabled

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