Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391347
Title:
Flashplugin-installer forces to download extra files twice
Status in flashplugin-nonfree package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ubuntu release: all
Package version: 11.2.202.411ubuntu0.14.04.1
On our machines, which we host behind a firewall and proxy, we have
seen constant popups of the update-notifier for "Failure to download
extra data files" even when the Flashplugin-installer installation was
successful.
I digged deeper into this problem and have seen that the triggers for
update-notifier-common are getting executed by the installer, but
there is no file created at /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloads/flashplugin-installer. So when `/usr/lib/update-notifier
/package-data-downloader` is executed via cron.daily, it tries to
download the file again and if successful creates the above status
file.
That means that for each and every installation / upgrade of Flash the
extra files are getting downloaded twice from the remote location!
This causes lots of extra traffic, and can fail due to the reason
below.
The reason why it fails for us, are the proxy settings and that
cron.daily does not inherit our proxy settings from /etc/environment.
But that is already filed as another bug and should not be covered
here.
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