Network proxy not used

[Kevin Steen]

jockey-gtk doesn't use the configured Gnome http proxy, nor the 'http_proxy' environment variable to download from the network. If there is no nameserver configured in /etc/resolv.conf or if there is no network route to the required server, jockey gives a generic error without logging the fact that a networking problem caused the failure.

Ubuntu Karmic
jockey-gtk package:0.5.5-0ubuntu3
b43 driver install.

[Alex Red (aredkozubov)]

Ubuntu lucid,
jockey does not use http_proxy environment variable that has authentication within it.

System:
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Linux ubuntu-sim 2.6.32-24-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:07:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Dialog box:
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Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb 407 Proxy Authentication Required [IP: 10.9.9.126 80]

Jockey log file related lines:
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2010-08-09 12:07:18,492 WARNING: Package fetching failed: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.1.1.2-2fakesync1_all.deb 407 Proxy Authentication Required [IP: 10.9.9.126 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.14.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb 407 Proxy Authentication Required [IP: 10.9.9.126 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/patch/patch_2.6-2ubuntu1_i386.deb 407 Proxy Authentication Required [IP: 10.9.9.126 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current_195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04_i386.deb 407 Proxy Authentication Required [IP: 10.9.9.126 80]

User's proxy settings (in .bashrc), environment variable:
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http_proxy=http://domain\user_name:<email address hidden>:80

Proxy has simple/weak authentication where user_name/my_password are not encoded.

Other Ubuntu apps.
apt-get is working as well as synaptics. The first one uses the above said environment variable, the second one uses its own settings.

Thank you in avdance