I also got this problem when I was upgrading to Karmic yesterday. It caused the upgrade process to more or less be aborted, although the rest of the upgrade seems to have gone fine.
to my /etc/hosts, but the result is still the same; it cycles through the servers and times out on all of them, then gives up with a checksum mismatch:
Connecting to surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net|32.1.6.32|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.
sha256sum: andale32.exe: No such file or directory
andale32.exe: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 listed file could not be read
Checksum mismatch for andale32.exe, aborting!
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I also got this problem when I was upgrading to Karmic yesterday. It caused the upgrade process to more or less be aborted, although the rest of the upgrade seems to have gone fine.
I tried adding
216.34.181.59 downloads. sourceforge. net sourceforge. net sourceforge. net sourceforge. net
212.219.56.167 kent.dl.
213.203.218.122 mesh.dl.
208.122.28.29 voxel.dl.
to my /etc/hosts, but the result is still the same; it cycles through the servers and times out on all of them, then gives up with a checksum mismatch:
Connecting to surfnet. dl.sourceforge. net|32. 1.6.32| :80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.
sha256sum: andale32.exe: No such file or directory -installer (--configure): s-installer
andale32.exe: FAILED open or read
sha256sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 listed file could not be read
Checksum mismatch for andale32.exe, aborting!
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ttf-mscorefont
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)