[Bug 409119] [NEW] Configuration of flashplugin-installer succeeds even when download fails

[Geir Ove Myhr]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

After really wanting to see a web page that uses flash in Firefox I
clicked the "Install Missing Plugins..." button and chose the Adobe
flash player (because the others don't really work in practice, do
they?). After entering my password to allow the system to install the
package flashplugin-installer, it reported "Successfully applied all
changes. You can close the window now." When revealing the details in
the dialog, however, the picture is less clear:

wget: unable to resolve host address `archive.canonical.com' 
download failed
The falsh plugin is NOT installed.

Of course only serious bug hunters click the the "Details" button...
Most users would wonder why on earth flash isn't working when they were
told that it installed successfully.

I'm aware that since Adobe only allows limited distribution of flash
through 3rd parties, flashplugin-installer uses apt in a convoluted way
to download the actual files only during package configuration. The
problem here is that the configuration reports success even if it really
fails.

There are a few similar bug reports, but they never ended up going
anywhere so I figured I'd better file a new report with updated (and
English) information.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

** Affects: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386

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Configuration of flashplugin-installer succeeds even when download fails
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