Bug 13462

Same problem on 64 bit...

Hardware: i586 => All

Does this actually cause any problems?  This will happen if you don't have internet connectivity when it tries to install flash-player-plugin.  You said non-fatal, so I'm guessing it doesn't really cause any problems.

Summary: install error (non-fatal) => flash-player-plugin may fail to install during Mageia installation

Since 'net connectivity isn't even attempted/established until later in the install process; this will never succeed -- so why is it even attempted? :)
The "problem" is that it requires a useless user interaction -- at least it's at the end of the install; not at the beginning where it would cause installation delays.

Anssi, Thierry, maybe we can decrease from 5 to 3 in rpmsrate so it's not installed as default ?

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/meta-task/current/SOURCES/rpmsrate-raw?revision=667084&view=markup#l432

CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, thierry.vignaud

I just encountered this bug while installing a current Cauldron x86_64 system via boot.iso. Got the aforementioned error message in an installer notification window - IMHO an inexperienced user might be quite troubled by it.

I had enabled all available repositories and I'm guessing that Flash was pulled in automatically, because I certainly did not select it manuallt...

CC: (none) => thkala

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Installed mga5(i586) on an old laptop to replace WinXP.  Problem still exists.

Version: 4 => 5

Since this remains open, I will note that it still occurs with a netinstall of Cauldron (Mageia 6). I don't know if the problem is related to network status or the need to accept Adobe's EULA. However, this was reported and resolved in M3 by deleting the plugin from the install process (Bug 8367). This seems a more than reasonable solution given a) the perennial security problems with flash and b) the warnings people will receive in most cases where the plugin is needed.

CC: (none) => waterbearer54

Will have to try another install; but it seems like install tries to find the package in core/release; but it resides in nonfree/release...

(In reply to David Walser from comment #2)
> Does this actually cause any problems?  This will happen if you don't have
> internet connectivity when it tries to install flash-player-plugin. 

This will also happen when a new release of the plugin is released...

During a boot.iso install/upgrade, there is no 'net connectivity at this point.
A new release of the plugin is orthogonal to the currently being installed s/w as there is no network yet; although it could be done during update step after network config.

Hmm...  if net connectivity does exist, looks like the adobe server is the problem...

drakx11/install.log:
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'fpdownload.adobe.com'
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'fpdownload.adobe.com'
Error: Unable to download Flash Player. This is likely due to this package
       being too old. Please file a bug report at https://bugs.mageia.org
       so that the package gets updated. Thank you.

       In the meantime, you can download Flash Player manually from
       http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
%prein(flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.644-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64: install failed


$ dig fpdownload.adobe.com
fpdownload.adobe.com.   299     IN      CNAME   ssl.adobe.com.edgekey.net.
ssl.adobe.com.edgekey.net. 21600 IN     CNAME   e4578.b.akamaiedge.net.
e4578.b.akamaiedge.net. 20      IN      A       23.50.230.182

$ ncftp fpdownload.adobe.com
NcFTP 3.2.5 (Feb 02, 2011) by Mike Gleason (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
Could not connect to 23.50.230.182 -- try again later: Connection timed out.                                                                                  
Could not connect to 23.50.230.182 -- try again later: Connection timed out.                                                                                  
Could not connect to 23.50.230.182 -- try again later: Connection timed out.                                                                                  
Could not connect to 23.50.230.182 -- try again later: Connection timed out.
[...]

# urpmi flash-player-plugin


    http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release/flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
installing flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms     
  <snip>

error: %prein(flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
ERROR: 'script' failed for flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64
error: flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64: install failed

CC: (none) => bittwister2
Source RPM: flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.359-1.mga4 => flash-player-plugin-24.0.0.221-1.mga6.nonfree.x86_64.rpm

Hmm, we recently had another report of that.  Is our package outdated again?

CC: (none) => zen25000

flash is EOL.
updates were provides for this package.
Orphaned Bug report.

Closing as OLD.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD