upgrade 8.10 to 9.04 - fails because download of adobe flash plugin is stuck

[PK]

Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree

This seems to be a connection problem of the "download tool" used in the upgrade process. I can download the package "adobe-flashplugin_10.0.22.87.orig.tar.gz" with Firefox in 8.10 (while the upgrade program is stuck with the download) perfectly. But the connection of the upgrade "download tool" seems to be stuck while downloading the flash package.
The upgrade fails because of Flash ...
Can't this be marked as "optional"?

This is a 8.10 amd64 installation upgrading to 9.04 with the update manager.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: Unterprozess post-installation script mit Signal (Interrupt) getötet
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[szemere (peter-jasko)]

Same symptoms as others. Download was tried 4 times throughout upgrade process. Reached 5%, 6%, 72%, 20% of download before it stalled.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

the Network being down during upgrade should be fixed in latest update-manager. was your network completely down? or just had bad traffic?

[szemere (peter-jasko)]

Network was up and traffic to Ubuntu servers was fine (managed to security update another machine on same network at same time).

After upgrade, I tried to manually install this package (thru Synaptic), but failed again. Then tried uninstall, which seemed to fail too, because it tried to download package before uninstall. However Synaptic showed it removed from installed packages list. I also removed flashplugin-installer (ok) and then installed adobe-flashplugin (ok). Now flash works (from Firefox).

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Thanks. so if you remove adobe-flashplugin again and install flashplugin-installer can you still reproduce?

[PK (patrick-kammermayer)]

I removed all flash related packages (flashplugin-installer and flashplugin-nonfree) there was no adobe-flashplugin package. Then I reinstalled the flashplugin-installer - this time it worked without being stuck.

[szemere (peter-jasko)]

I removed adobe-flashplugin and am in process of trying to install flashplugin-installer. I'm experiencing the same problem as before (current install log attached, 40minutes after start), but I'm going to let the thing run overnight.

[szemere (peter-jasko)]

The download completed (took 3 hours) and the package successfully installed. Attached the install log.