This is a libvirt virtual machine that I've installed with ubuntu-vm-
builder on a 16.04 LTS host. The full command, if you're interested,
was
ubuntu-vm-builder kvm xenial \
--libvirt qemu:///system \
--tmpfs=2048 \
--rootsize 20480 \
--ssh-key=/root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
--ssh-user-key=/root/.ssh/authorized_keys \
--lock-user \
--suite xenial \
--components main,restricted,universe,multiverse \
--addpkg openssh-server \
--addpkg avahi-daemon \
--addpkg vim \
--addpkg git \
--addpkg acpid \
--addpkg unattended-upgrades \
--addpkg command-not-found \
--addpkg software-properties-common \
--addpkg openjdk-8-jre-headless \
--addpkg htop \
--addpkg strace \
--addpkg linux-image-generic \
--hostname xenial64 \
--domain lan \
--bridge br0 \
--mem 1024 --cpus 2
etckeeper tells me I've installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Aug 18,
2016. At that time I was getting nightly cron errors that looked like
this:
/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
403 Forbidden
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)
E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
403 Forbidden
E: Download Failed
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
because my local apt proxy was denying sourceforge downloads. When I
eventually figured that out and added the right domains to /etc/squid-
deb-proxy/mirror-dstdomain.acl on the proxy host, the cron script
succeeded downloading and extracting the font files. This was on Aug
23, 2016.
Then I have an unattended-upgrades log from 2016-11-04 that upgraded
update-notifier-common, which also ran the downloads successfully.
And then I have an unattended-upgrades log from 2017-01-06 that upgraded
update-notifier-common again, and this one failed with
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
and since then every night the cron script with the original message.
(I was mistaken about the dates in my original report -- I thought I
left all of the cron errors in my inbox, but apparently I'd already
saved the errors from Jan 6 through 11 in my mail archive.)
I'm fine with this bug being closed as wontfix, since I used a non-standard
Ubuntu installation method.
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Title:
should depend on apt-transport-https (was: fails to download
andale32.exe, spams my cron every night)
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