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| 2017-01-10 19:10:34 |
Adrien Beau |
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* OS release: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
* Package version: 3.168.3
For the past few days (maybe even weeks for other users), update-notifier has been very repeatedly failing to handle the downloads for ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Previously it was working fine on the same system.
This seems to affect a lot of desktop users, but the issue is usually misdiagnosed on forums because it is attributed to ttf-mscorefonts-installer and not to update-notifier-common.
The issue is made particularly irritating because the update-notifier cron job tries and fails and notifies users daily of this failure.
The issue can be reproduced by having ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed, and running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure update-notifier-common
The error messages seem to be random but actually appear to be consistent for a given download source:
* freefr.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* kent.dl.sourceforge.net: Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
* netassist.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header Bad header data [IP: 62.205.134.42 80]
* netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
* netix.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
In all above cases, the reported failing URL can be downloaded just fine using wget.
Some other mirrors appear to work (unfortunately, mirror names are only printed
in case of errors). However, since ttf-mscorefonts-installer triggers 11 downloads in a row, chances of randomly getting 11 working mirrors are very low. |
* OS release: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
* Package version: 3.168.3
For the past few days (maybe even weeks for other users), update-notifier has been very repeatedly failing to handle the downloads for ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Previously it was working fine on the same system.
This seems to affect a lot of desktop users, but the issue is usually misdiagnosed on forums because it is attributed to ttf-mscorefonts-installer and not to update-notifier-common.
The issue is made particularly irritating because the update-notifier cron job tries and fails and notifies users daily of this failure.
The issue can be reproduced by having ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed, and running:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure update-notifier-common
The error messages seem to be random but actually appear to be consistent for a given download source:
* freefr.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* kent.dl.sourceforge.net: Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
* netassist.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header Bad header data [IP: 62.205.134.42 80]
* netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
* netix.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
* vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found
In all above cases, the reported failing URL can be downloaded just fine using wget.
Some other mirrors appear to work (unfortunately, mirror names are only printed in case of errors). However, since ttf-mscorefonts-installer triggers 11 downloads in a row, chances of randomly getting 11 working mirrors are very low.
I am tagging this as regression-update because the issue started happening when upgrading from 3.168.2 to 3.168.3 last Friday. It is of course entirely possible the root cause is in another package, but this would also likely be a regression-update, since I am very careful about system-wide changes on this machine.
The previous update from 3.168.1 to 3.168.2 on November 4th went just fine. ttf-mscorefonts-installer has been installed (just fine) on September 26th, and not upgraded since then. |
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| 2017-01-10 21:01:43 |
pdz |
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| 2017-01-10 21:01:45 |
Launchpad Janitor |
update-notifier (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2017-01-10 21:03:19 |
Elias Kouskoumvekakis |
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| 2017-01-10 21:04:45 |
Matthew L. Dailey |
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| 2017-01-10 21:17:01 |
Stephan Springer |
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| 2017-01-10 22:21:06 |
Adrien Beau |
affects |
update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
apt (Ubuntu) |
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| 2017-01-10 22:22:13 |
Adrien Beau |
summary |
update-notifier / ttf-mscorefonts-installer download failure (regression) |
apt-helper / update-notifier / ttf-mscorefonts-installer download failure (regression) |
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| 2017-01-10 22:26:22 |
Andrew France |
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added subscriber Andrew France |
| 2017-01-10 22:27:19 |
Julian Andres Klode |
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1651923 |
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| 2017-01-10 22:27:30 |
Julian Andres Klode |
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regression-update |
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| 2017-01-10 23:18:29 |
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| 2017-01-11 00:47:51 |
Simon May |
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| 2017-01-11 01:54:05 |
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| 2017-01-11 08:41:34 |
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| 2017-01-11 09:09:27 |
Damien Lecan |
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| 2017-01-11 09:33:13 |
Jimmy Merrild Krag |
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| 2017-01-11 12:31:26 |
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| 2017-01-13 16:46:46 |
Naël |
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| 2017-01-16 23:08:01 |
Nathan Musoke |
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| 2017-02-02 23:08:45 |
Naël |
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| 2017-06-05 14:14:59 |
Jonathan Kamens |
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| 2017-06-05 14:39:19 |
Jonathan Kamens |
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| 2017-10-21 22:48:34 |
LinuxRussia |
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| 2017-10-21 23:08:12 |
Julian Andres Klode |
apt (Ubuntu): assignee |
LinuxRussia (kobylyanets) |
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| 2017-10-21 23:08:53 |
Julian Andres Klode |
apt (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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| 2017-10-21 23:12:09 |
Julian Andres Klode |
marked as duplicate |
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