ttf-mscorefonts-installer drop-priv warnings and download errors during install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
for several days now, updates that involve updating or re-configuring ttf-mscorefonts
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/
data-downloads/
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
[Working]
[Working]
[Working]
[Working]
[Working]
Err:1 http://
[Working]
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/
E: Failed to fetch https:/
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
bladernr@
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://
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-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-
Processing triggers for update-
ttf-mscorefonts
ttf-mscorefonts
Err:1 http://
400 Bad request
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/
E: Failed to fetch https:/
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts
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
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-51-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
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)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in msttcorefonts (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in msttcorefonts (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.