[Bug 1705011] Re: If "Failure to download extra data files" fails, the error message disappears too fast

[Paul White]

** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  If "Failure to download extra data files" fails, the error message
  disappears too fast

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  New
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Often after a software update, you get the dialogue window "Failure to
  download extra data files".

  For instance: "The following packages requested additional data
  downloads after package installation, but the data could not be
  downloaded or could not be processed.

  flashplugin-installer"

  The dialogue box has a button "Run this action now".

  If you click on it, a terminal window pops up, and runs some commands.

  There are two problems:

  1) If the process fails, the terminal window closes before you get a
  chance to read what the problem was, and so it is very hard to find
  out what you need to solve.

  2) If the terminal window succeeds succeeds, the dialogue box remains
  visible, giving the same message, and so you don't know if the problem
  has now been solved or not, and whether to press the "run this action
  now" button again.

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