[Bug 876298] Re: [FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash, msttcorefonts) not being available.

Tue May 15 12:55:28 UTC 2012

I try to install the flash plugin behind a firewall but there is a serious regression
with flashplugin-installer=11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1 (11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1 works fine, see below)

Logs:

# apt-get install flashplugin-installer=11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  flashplugin-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8740 B of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading flashplugin-installer from 11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1 to 11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1.
(Reading database ... 683933 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1) ...
Downloading...
--2012-05-15 12:35:38--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.235.orig.tar.gz
Connecting to 10.195.111.98:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14131146 (13M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `./adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.235.orig.tar.gz'

     0K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 22% 1.68M 6s
  3072K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 44% 1.34M 5s
  6144K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 66% 1.42M 3s
  9216K ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 89% 1.56M 1s
 12288K ........ ........ .......                            100% 1.59M=9.0s

2012-05-15 12:35:47 (1.50 MB/s) - `./adobe-
flashplugin_11.2.202.235.orig.tar.gz' saved [14131146/14131146]

Download done.
Flash Plugin installed.

# apt-get install flashplugin-installer=11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be upgraded:
  flashplugin-installer
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/8346 B of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 683919 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.235ubuntu0.11.10.1 (using .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-installer ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.235.orig.tar.gz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 234, in process_download_requests
    dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 239, in retrieve
    fp = self.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 344, in open_http
    h.endheaders(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 954, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 814, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 776, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 757, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno -2] Name or service not known
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.235ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...

** Changed in: adobe-flash-plugin-tools
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash,
  msttcorefonts) not being available.

Status in Adobe Flash Plugin Tools:
  Confirmed
Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  At the 11.10 release archive.canonical.com collapsed under heavy load
  and started returning 503 errors.  This caused the flash package to be
  unable to grab its payload and thus caused the package to fail, which
  in turn caused the installation to fail.

  The current plan is to add metadata to a package where it can add a
  URL to retrieve its data, so ubiquity and apt-get --download-only can
  cache it.  We also need a way to queue up package installation post-
  install, for when we commit to installing flash but cannot do so due
  to network issues, or when the user wishes to have full language
  support post-install.

  This change requires a freeze exception for precise, as it involves
  adding new features to update-notifier and significant reworking of
  the maintainer scripts for the affected packages.  It also introduces
  new UI components; however these UI components are only visible in the
  event of a failure, so I don't think we should block on UI freeze for
  making this change given the significant benefit to the install
  experience when a download fails.

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