fails to deal with mscorefonts

Bug #1364879 reported by dino99
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update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Made a fresh Utopic installation from mini.iso (ext4, upstart used)

The system is updated/upgraded via synaptic, but update-notifier still pop up with a warning dialogbox begging to install mscorefonts, even if ttf-mscorefonts-installer is already in the place.
Following the dialogbox request i've made several times the download/re-install of mscorefonts (from that dialogbox), but it again ignore it and ask again & again on next sessions.

Running it from a terminal, i'm getting:

oem@u32:~$ sudo update-notifier
[sudo] password for oem:

** (update-notifier:8668): WARNING **: not starting for system user
oem@u32:~$ update-notifier

** (update-notifier:8682): WARNING **: already running?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: update-notifier 3.156
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-12.18-generic 3.16.1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Sep 3 12:08:58 2014
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Got that popup again today, after a cold boot and updating/upgrading from synaptic:

Failure to download extra data files

The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.

ttf-mscorefonts-installer

The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection.

Could it be the mandatory "EULA" request not checked ? (that pc have already accepted that EULA when wine1.7 have been used with some apps requiring mscorefonts)

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Now fixed

msttcorefonts (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * update-ms-fonts: Skip race between update-notifier and update-ms-fonts
    trying to delete the same files from the same locations (LP: #1354709)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:08:50 -0600

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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