I'm also getting the update window on each restart starting this week for ttf-mscorefonts-installer and it always fails. I manually ran the package-data-downloader and I get the same errors. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 Linux 4.4.0-51-generic #72-Ubuntu x86_64
$ sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader [sudo] password for burfee: ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB] Fetched 198 kB in 1s (186 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB] Fetched 554 kB in 1s (381 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe [168 kB] Fetched 168 kB in 1s (162 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arialb32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe [969 B] Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe Hash Sum mismatch Fetched 969 B in 1s (863 B/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/comic32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=kent2.dl.sourceforge.net Hash Sum mismatch E: Download Failed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575408 Title: pkgAcquire::Run warnings ("Can't drop privileges for downloading...") during font-file downloads To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1575408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
