internet connection became extraordinarliy slow

[Jarek Dąbrowski]

Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

Immediately after the upgrade, the communication with dns slowed down by orders of magnitude. No matter which url is addressed, firefox hangs literally for minutes on "looking up ...".

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 26 02:12:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.55-generic
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Not a msttcorefonts bug.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Hmmm... it could be related to bug 464422.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Have you tried changing your DNS to Google DNS or OpenDNS?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 464422, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.