ttf-mscorefonts-installer asks sudoer rights but dialog does not wait

[Dominique Meeùs]

A window proposes to finish the installation of ttf-mscorefonts-installer. A dialog appears in another window but disappears immediately. For the fraction of a second it can be seen, it looks like the identification windows that comes for some upgrades (kernel etc.).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: update-notifier 3.192.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu26
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Classic:GNOME
Date: Wed Apr 10 02:39:43 2019
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-14 (269 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR
 PATH=(custom, user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-06 (3 days ago)

[Dominique Meeùs (dominiquem)]

Found this workaround in #1655431. Quoting: Boris Rybalkin (ribalkin) wrote on 2017-11-26: #18
Was able to fix sf mirrors issue by replacing sf mirror with some github copy:
sudo sed -i 's#http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts#https://github.com/pushcx/corefonts/raw/master#g' /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Then run:
sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader
All downloaded and good.
[End quote]
This solves the mirrors problems with Sourceforge. There remains a problem that an authentication dialog disappears even before you get a chance to answer.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this issue. What package manager did you use to install ttf-mscorefonts?

[Dominique Meeùs (dominiquem)]

Since April, I forgot. But I always use either apt-get install, either
synaptic. But in my report of April, I see update-notifier. I have a
faint remembrance of the update notifier giving it a try every day until
I got bored, filed the bug and found a workaround.

Le 13/08/19 à 22:37, Brian Murray a écrit :

> Thanks for taking the time to report this issue. What package manager
> did you use to install ttf-mscorefonts?
>
> ** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-notifier (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]