Endless stream of repair dialogs after declining sun-java6-plugin EULA

[AJenbo]

software-center trunk r2269, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1

Installer crashes when installing sun-java6-plugin if software center is closed before displaying the license dialog.

1 Enable partner sources.
2 Start the installation of sun-java6-plugin
3. When the "Configuring sun-java6-jre" dialog appears, click "Forward" *without* first clicking "Do you accept the DLJ license terms?".

What happens:
* Two error dialogs appear.
* An "Items cannot be installed or removed until the package catalogue is repaired" dialog appears.
* Another "Items cannot be installed or removed until the package catalogue is repaired" dialog appears on top of it.
* For as long as you click "Repair" in these dialogs, they keep appearing.
* Even trying to remove sun-java6-plugin from USC doesn't work.

What should happen:
* Either zero or one error dialog appears.
* The package is not left part-installed in the first place.

Workaround: Close USC. Then at a terminal, enter the command "sudo apt-get remove sun-java6-plugin".

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The symptoms are different now, but this bug is still present and nasty.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The problem here is that:
- sun-java6-plugin does not have a license prompt
- sun-java6-bin has one

sun-java6-plugin is unpacked, then sun-java6-bin. The later asks in its preinst script for the license, that
is declined. The -bin package is not installed (correctly). But the sun-java6-plugin package is unpacked and
the system wants to fix -plugin by installing -bin which will fail because the user declined the license.

The easiest fix is to ask in -plugins for the license as well to ensure if the user does not accept it, he/she
will not have -plugins unpacked on the system. I attach a patch for this.

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[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Unsubscribing sponsors, as this is in the partners repository.

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

sounds like we need to fix this in sun-java6, not in software-center.

[Estevam Henrique Portela Mota e Silva (estevamota)]

Why sun-java6-plugin is not available? I need to access my bank's requirement java plugin used in navigation.
If you want to test the link: https://www2.bancobrasil.com.br/aapf/login.jsp?aapf.IDH=sim&perfil=1
Before NATTY version is working perfectly in sun-java6-plugin and java plugin opens the regular bank ..

root@ti11-ntbk:~# apt-cache search sun-java6
sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
sun-java6-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)
root@ti11-ntbk:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
root@ti11-ntbk:~#

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

sun-java6 is no longer in the partner repository for Oneiric, as Oracle changed the licensing terms and we no longer have access to a version that can de redistributed.

Closing this bug as there is nothing to do.