I have no confirmation but it seems to be caused by a host at archive.canonical.com being slow to respond.
I have no firewall blocking data files from being downloaded and use a proxy that doesn't cache tar.gz files. >From the logs of the proxy, response time from archive.canonical.com was 241s, >then 49s on next try (file being downloaded was >adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.233.orig.tar.gz) I ran 100 iterations of the following command today with and without proxy: rm /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/flashplugin-installer; apt-get install --reinstall update-notifier-common None of them failed and I couldn't reproduce the hang. Average response times are below 5s for scandium.canonical.com and between 7s and 10s for sadalbari.canonical.com. Here is an excerpt of my proxy's logs for yesterdays tries: TimeStamp ResponseTime (ms) Peer 2012-04-17 11:14:07 240914 91.189.92.191 2012-04-17 11:19:42 49232 91.189.92.191 2012-04-17 11:34:11 4364 91.189.88.33 2012-04-17 11:39:13 4591 91.189.88.33 2012-04-17 11:49:27 4501 91.189.88.33 2012-04-17 12:07:56 8955 91.189.92.191 2012-04-17 13:02:37 10554 91.189.92.191 My guess is that remote host was slow to respond/unresponsive which froze the downloader. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984373 Title: update-notifier setup hangs during installation of Precise with ubiquity To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/984373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
