KDE Daemon update notification error

[Harry Cutts]

Every time I log in, KDE Daemon displays a notification saying that updates are available. When I click the corresponding KDE Daemon icon in the System Tray, a long thin black rectangle appears, spanning both of my screens. It seems to be a window, as it appears in the Task Manager, has a window border down the left-hand side and can be moved if I drag the area where the title bar should be. If I snap it into place by dragging until my cursor touches a screen edge, I can see some text inside the window (screenshot attached).

The window has a heading saying: "Data files for some packages could not be downloadedName-ar.UTF-8: [some Arabic characters] Name-ast.UTF-8: L [goes off-screen]"

There is also this message: "The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed... ttf-mscorefonts-installer .. This is a permanent failure that leaves these packages unusable on your system. You may need to fix your Internet connection, then remove and reinstall the packages to fix this problem."

(Both of these are on the screenshot.)

I have tried to fix the issue by reinstalling ttf-mscorefonts-installer ('sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer'), to no avail. I have used muon-updater to do updates, which works fine, but the notification still appears even when there are no updates available.

I am running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. I don't know why ubuntu-bug has chosen kde4libs as the package, as 'apt-cache policy kde4libs' is unable to locate the package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 29 15:09:16 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde4libs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Badcam (kiwicameron+launchpad)]

I can confirm this. Attached is a screenshot.

http://i.imgur.com/vXOJJ.png

You can actually see what this box says if you drag the black window (I had to resize it first) to another desktop.

This is what it is:

http://i.imgur.com/9Vpzf.png

Not ethe "Run this action" icon below. Which isn't in the prior posters screenshot.

Clicking "Run this action" brings up a terminal box with an error, and then I get a strange cursor and can't use the mouse anymore. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

http://i.imgur.com/eLyTo.png

[Bimal J Rekhadiya (bimaljr)]

I am also getting same problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.