Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree Version: 1.8.1
Greetings Bart, First, thank you for your work maintaining this package. We appreciate it! I came across a failure of update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree that is quite odd. It might be a bug, or maybe I am doing something wrong. There's something really baffling for me about it, keep reading to find out. First, the command update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree works perfectly from the terminal in all machines here. That being said, I created the bash script "UpdatePepperFlash" (has been chmod +x) as follows: #!/bin/bash update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install --verbose exit 0 The script above is triggered by a .desktop launcher, as follows: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Update PepperFlash Comment= Update PepperFlash Exec=/usr/bin/gksudo /usr/local/bin/UpdatePepperFlash Terminal=true Type=Application Icon=applications-system Categories=System; However, the script above fails in all machines here (32 and 64) with Debian Jessie 8.2. Always (it is easily replicated), the script stops on the terminal on something like this: options : --install --verbose -- temporary directory: /tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.4Vfd5MLrcQ doing apt-get update on google repository downloading http://people.debian.org/~bartm/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/latest-stable-veri fied.txt selected action = --install After that it halts and does nothing else. Now, here comes the baffling part: I discovered that if I redirect the output of that command to a log, THE SCRIPT WORKS PERFECTLY. The following changed script works when triggered by the same .desktop launcher: #!/bin/bash update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install -verbose >> /var/log/apt/updatepepper.log 2>&1 exit 0 The script above works in all machines, and the only difference is the redirection of the output. I am baffled and cannot find an explanation to this. I decided to report because this could be an insidious bug that can have consequences in other scenarios. Or maybe I am just missing something here. Could you kindly shed some light in this issue? Thanks, Jamil Said
