Hi -- I have a variant of this bug. I've installed the 1.1.0~ppa1 update and (as I suspected) it didn't fix my issue.
The issue is that software-center does not pass system-wide proxy settings to its subprocesses. This means that packages which are wrappers for alternative download methods still fail. Two examples of such packages are flashplugin-installer and ttf- mscorefonts-installer. Attached (evidence.tar.gz) is some terminal output, a window shot of a stuck software-center process, and a window shot of gconf-editor showing the proxy config. software-center is perfectly happy to install normal packages; in fact it had to download flashplugin-installer.deb to get as far as it did. The actual bug here might arguably be in some other layer -- debconf, aptd, dpkg itself?, or the individual packages (flashplug-installer). Perhaps it should even be addressed in multiple places. I encountered it with software-center so that's where I'm injecting this. ** Attachment added: "command log & window capture of subprocess proxy issue" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35592036/evidence.tar.gz ** Attachment removed: "command log & window capture of subprocess proxy issue" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35592036/evidence.tar.gz -- [karmic] 407 proxy authentication failure in Ubuntu software centre and IM even after applying systemwide proxy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/466142 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
