Description of problem: I was installing the flash plugin and the installation seems to proceed, then finish with success, but the rpm is actually not installed. And rpmdrake would not tell me there has been an error. Normally urpmi tells when an installation failed, not in this case. I describe the error I got if using urpmi here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5212#c6 This is a separate bug report, because bug 5212 deals with why the package installation failed, whereas the current report deals with the way rpmdrake should report/handle errors. Version-Release number of rpmdrake: rpmdrake-5.34-1.mga2.noarch Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.238 x86_64 on nonfree through rpmdrake. 2. Run "Apply", installation seems to go on. 3. When it finishes with apparent success, if you search the package again, it looks checked. 4. But if you "reset the selection", and search again for the package, it actually appears unchecked. => installation failed but it looked ok until you forced a reset.
Hi Jehan, Thanks for the report. What is the output of rpm -qa | grep flash-player-plugin (in the console) I can't reproduce this on Mageia 2, X86_64, btw.
CC: (none) => marja11
Hey, just tested. No output at all on this machine for this command.
Thx for the reply :) Could you please attach the /var/log/messages* from when you tried to install the package? (It is probably in /var/log/messages.1 or /var/log/messages.2.gz, please check the date) Also, if you still don't have the package: please run (as root) urpmi flash-player-plugin 2>&1 | tee urpmi-fpp.txt If after that the package isn't installed again, then please attach urpmi-fpp.txt to this report, too.
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Created attachment 2954 [details] Contents of messages.3.gz file, relevant to current bug Hi, sorry for the late reply. Attached is the extract of the messages file which contained the relevant value. I extracted only relevant information with this command (the messages.3 file being 242M, I guess you don't want all :p): $ grep -A 10 -B 10 flash-player-plugin messages.3 |grep rpmdrake > ~aryeom/bug7561 You can see several attempts at close interval (because at first, I did not understand that it failed as rpmdrake would not tell it, until I tried with urpmi).
Created attachment 2955 [details] Result of urpmi flash-player-plugin 2>&1 |tee urpmi-fpp.txt Marja > and for the second test. I did manage to install flash-player, but not through the Mageia repository, but directly the one on Adobe website. So I ran your command, which uninstalled the existing flash-player, but whatever, I can go back to Adobe website. Also urpmi still fails on this specific package.
Created attachment 2956 [details] Result of LC_ALL=C urpmi flash-player-plugin 2>&1 |tee urpmi-fpp.txt Just in case, as there were a few words in Korean in the previous urpmi-fpp.txt file (the default on this installation), not much, so I don't think it is much of a problem. But just in case, so that I don't have to do it again. Here a version with LC_ALL=C.
This seems a valid bug report: rpmdrake seems not to handle the special case of a package's %pre script that fails. Am I right Thierry (the maintainer of this package)?
Keywords: (none) => TriagedCC: (none) => stormiAssignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaudSummary: rpmdrake does not tell me that an installation failed => rpmdrake does not tell me that an installation failed (flash-player-plugin)
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