About a week ago I got
kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$ sudo apt remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer[sudo] password 
for kris: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 94.2 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 240310 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Setting up update-notifier-common (3.186) ...
chown: cannot access 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/': No such file or 
directory
dpkg: error processing package update-notifier-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 update-notifier-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$

after I had changed something in /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloads/

I had to restore (clonezilla) to get past problem.

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