Public bug reported: for several days now, updates that involve updating or re-configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer have thrown warnings. After looking at my apt logs, there appears to be a couple issues.
First is a warning about not being able to drop privileges... which admittedly may be a red herring: 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'. - pkgAcqu ire::Run (13: Permission denied) Next is a failure to download arial32 from sourceforge which results in a full error due to a 400 Return Code: ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [Working] [Working] [Working] [Working] [Working] Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe 400 Bad request [Working] 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) E: Failed to fetch https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe 400 Bad request E: Download Failed This goes on and completes, however, the warnings always trigger annoying popups that could be confusing for users who don't understand what's going on (or just annoying for those of us who have to close the stinking pop-up box ever time updates are applied (which could be daily depending on how users have update manager configured). To reporoduce this, I simply did a re-install of ttf-mscorefonts- installer and was able to easily reproduce the warnings and errors: bladernr@galactica:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 [29.5 kB] Fetched 29.5 kB in 0s (37.8 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 380577 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ... mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.3) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe 400 Bad request 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 https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 400 Bad request E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... This appears to be an upstream issue, however, the drop-privileges issue is bothersome as well. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-51.72-generic 4.4.30 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-51-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Jan 23 10:08:17 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (346 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160210) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: msttcorefonts UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658707 Title: ttf-mscorefonts-installer drop-priv warnings and download errors during install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1658707/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
