[Bug 1654573] Re: dowload of ttf-mscorefonts-installer failed

[Steve Karg]

Sourceforge.net recently asked developers if they wanted to update their
sites to use HTTPS rather than HTTP.  Perhaps this bug is related to
that change in the corefonts project on sourceforge.net

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Title:
  dowload of ttf-mscorefonts-installer failed

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  One may get a GUI prompt noting:
  Information available
  Update Information
  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.

  One clicks the button "Run this action now", then puts their password in the GUI prompt, and then the download of ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails with the following message:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
    404  Not Found
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)
  E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

  E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

  Another error message permutation:
  cat /var/log/apt/term.log
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
    400  Bad request
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
  E: Failed to fetch https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  400  Bad request

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up update-notifier (3.168.3) ...

  However, one may download the file fine via wget:
  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  --2017-01-09 12:28:22--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59
  Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
  Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe [following]
  --2017-01-09 12:28:22--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
  Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
  Location: https://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe [following]
  --2017-01-09 12:28:22--  https://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
  Resolving superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)... 209.61.193.20
  Connecting to superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)|209.61.193.20|:443... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
  Length: 198384 (194K) [application/octet-stream]
  Saving to: ‘andale32.exe’

  andale32.exe        100%[===================>] 193.73K   160KB/s    in
  1.2s

  2017-01-09 12:28:25 (160 KB/s) - ‘andale32.exe’ saved [198384/198384]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Jan  6 15:23:18 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-26 (803 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-07-30 (159 days ago)

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