msttcorefonts failed to install/upgrade : Resolving switch.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Name or service not known

[miked]

Binary package hint: mythtv

probably tried to install mythtv

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 19 12:51:31 2007
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: mythtv-backend None
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: mythtv
Title: package mythtv-backend None failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux Ubuntu704Tribe5Alt 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This is because msttcorefonts failed installation. Perhaps it should have a cleaner fallback to let the user know that it failed installation.

[Thijs Kinkhorst (kink)]

Could you clarify that a bit? The package has failed to install, it seems logical that it generates a dpkg error. How would you suggest to handle the situation?

[Srivatsa Kanchi R (srivatsak)]

This was auto reported when i installed it. dpkg popups a error dialog in the end of installation. But, all fonts have installed successfully.

This error, seems to appear when HTTP connect to the server takes long time

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Problem appears because ttf-mscorefonts-installer always tries to download fonts from internet servers, without asking if user wants to do this. This problem is related to bug #84453. Few years ago msttcorefonts always asked user before downloading fonts, but Debian or Ubuntu developers changed this behavior and now lots of users run into problems because of this.
I just tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" to 9.10 "Karmic" and upgrading procedure failed because of bad msttcorefonts behavior - I disconnected my computer from internet access after update-manager downloaded all needed karmic packages.

So, ttf-mscorefonts-installer should ask if user wanna get non-free fonts from internet during installation/configuration of package ttf-mscorefonts-installer and also package shouldn't return an error if there are no access to corefonts download servers - I think ttf-mscorefonts-installer should display a dialog with buttons "Try again" and "Download later" (run dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer when you will have internet connection).
This would fix not only this bug, but also lots of similar bugs, reported by ubuntu users, for example bug #319623, bug #246902, bug #453366, bug #464422, bug #464365, bug #464322 and several others, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bugs

[ajay (ajay-kripz)]

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