The upgrade log shows:
Setting up flashplugin-downloader:i386 (10.3.183.10ubuntu5) ...
[...]
Connessione a archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... fallito: Connessione
scaduta.
Rinuncio.
download failed
The Flash plugin is NOT installed.
Setting up flashplugin-installer (10.3.183.10ubuntu5) ...
nspluginwrapper: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so is not a
valid NPAPI plugin
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
So flashplugin-installer has failed to install because flashplugin-
downloader, which it depends on, has failed to download the plugin.
flashplugin-downloader is marked as installed in spite of this failure,
and flashplugin-installer then tries to make use of the file that is
supposed to have been downloaded.
That's because of the following code in the maintainer script:
fp_exit_with_error() {
echo $1
echo "The Flash plugin is NOT installed."
db_fset flashplugin-installer/local seen false
db_fset flashplugin-installer/httpget seen false
db_set flashplugin-installer/httpget false
exit 0 # still install the Debian package, undoes the fix for #387263
}
This last line should be changed to 'exit 1'. The package should never
be marked "installed" when the download has not succeeded, because it
breaks reverse-dependencies and leaves users with no clear way to get
the plugin properly installed.
For the life of me I don't know why the Debian maintainer did it this
way.
** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Title:
package flashplugin-installer 10.3.183.10ubuntu5 failed to
install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script
returned error exit status 1
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