Martin Pitt, thanks for working on this. I've utilized the non-Proposed release and this worked fine. However, I'll leave it to others to certify this is passed/failed as the issue appears environment or timing specific.
sudo apt -y install flashplugin-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-bitstream-vera | ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs The following NEW packages will be installed: flashplugin-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/6,838 B of archives. After this operation, 58.4 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-installer. (Reading database ... 280227 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168) ... flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz [27.1 MB] Fetched 27.1 MB in 1min 14s (362 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160512.1.orig.tar.gz Flash Plugin installed. Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.621ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 1.2.10ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.2.10ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.2.10ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1538438 Title: apt-helper crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in apt source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: Test Case ---------- Given that there are thousands of these crashes in the Error Tracker, just make sure the new version doesn't appear there. Errors Bucket ------------- https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper%3A6%3A__gnu_cxx%3A%3A__verbose_terminate_handler%3A__cxxabiv1%3A%3A__terminate%3Astd%3A%3Aterminate%3A__cxxabiv1%3A%3A__cxa_throw%3Astd%3A%3A__throw_out_of_range_fmt Original Description -------------------- After installing flashplugin-installer I get a prompt noting: [START] Failure to download extra data files 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 download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection. [END] Clicking the button Run this action now causes this crash consistently. Unfortunately, this has the negative outcome of disallowing folks who use Firefox from being able to update, or install Flash. There are a fair number of these events logged in errors.ubuntu.com. ProblemType: CrashDistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: apt 1.1.10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-7.18-generic 4.3.3 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jan 27 01:36:34 2016 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-25 (276 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20151228.1.orig.tar.gz SHA256:d322547d4542eeed2f57469cc0d3c10e9a55af6632c05be9fe8b6c6a0dbcffdb ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user)Signal: 6SourcePackage: apt StacktraceTop: __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt(char const*, ...) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 Title: apt-helper crashed with SIGABRT in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-01-27 (0 days ago) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1538438/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
