package flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Djamel M Bouzina]

dpkg crashed twice. Now it's not working

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 6 19:22:21 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.228ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

There are many dupes of bug 870643, where flashplugin-installer fails because it was unable to get the file it needs, over the internet.

This one may be different, because the DpkgTerminalLog.txt says:

Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.228ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla-flashplugin.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

So I'm not duping this one, though perhaps someone will judge it a dupe. I don't know what's happening with the alternatives.

To users newly seeing this problem, if you see errors that 'archive.canonical.com' was not reachable, or the download failed in other ways, I think 870643 is affecting you. Thanks.

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

Oh, now I see that this has been addressed in bug 975426. It's fixed, and I'm duping to that. thanks.