Notice of failed download provides no feedback for completed action

Bug #991767 reported by O Gopal
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

Suppose on install you tick the box to include Fluendo and such extras. And suppose that during the install your net connection breaks and the extras fail to download. A window will come up--"Information available"--telling you of the failure, in several languages. Excellent! And a button will offer "Run this action now."

But after you press the button to run the action, you will receive no feedback to tell you whether the action has succeeded or not, and the window will staysopen, with the same message and same option to "Run this action now."

This is confusing.

Expected behavior: Once the action has completed, the user should see a notice telling him so. And either the original window should close or else the "Run this action" button should be greyed out, leaving only the option "Close."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 30 10:43:54 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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O Gopal (jswami) wrote :
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
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O Gopal (jswami) wrote :

I've run into what appears to be the same bug again, this time in regard to downloading extra files for an Adobe Flash plugin.

Message:
----------------------
Failure to download extra data files

The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.

flashplugin-installer

The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection.
------------------------

I followed the directions, and I believe the download was successful. But the window still shows the same display, with a "Run this action now" button.

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote :

Seen today after upgrading from 13.04 -> 13.10

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aditya (7-contactadityapatil) wrote :

I have noticed this bug twice.I don't remember hove I fixed this last time but this time it is not ready to go away.A temperory solution maybe to remove update-notifier from startup applications.

First open a terminal and type.
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

then open startup applications and uncheck update-notifier.

then again run
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=false/NoDisplay=true/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

this will do.

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