[Bug 977178] Re: After upgrading to 12.04, flash doesn't seem to be installed to Firefox even though the package is.

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:25:01AM -0000, zub wrote:
> I have http_proxy environment variable and I have proxy configured in
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. This is what I believe to be the correct setup - no
> MITM via sudo, and update-manager, apt, aptitude, jockey just work.

See bug #982684.

> Where does the dialog originate from? update-notifier? But is it also
> the source of the text? I'd have guessed it's flashplugin-installer-
> related script trying to download something, and not using apt's proxy,
> and not seeing http_proxy.

The dialog is from update-notifier.

> Could you not just make the flashplugin-installer script (or whatever is
> it that is trying to do the download) pull in /etc/profile? That sounds
> sane to me, I don't see it being a hole for the http_proxy hijack as
> sudo would be. Sounds safer to me than just passing http_proxy through
> sudo. Also note that sudo -i does pull /etc/profile in.

It wouldn't be a hole, but I don't know that manually pulling in
/etc/profile is correct.  Anyway, we are never execing a shell here; parsing
/etc/profile in python would be messy, to say the least.

I think the main issue still affecting people is bug #982684, which I'm
working on.

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Title:
  After upgrading to 12.04, flash doesn't seem to be installed to
  Firefox even though the package is.

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Well, the summary says it all. After upgrading to 12.04 the flash is
  not working anymore in Firefox.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Apr  9 14:39:11 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (0 days ago)

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