[Bug 1713615] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http is forbidden

Gerald E Butler 1713615 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri May 4 17:50:58 UTC 2018


I'm seeing this issue on the latest up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04 as of May
4th, 2018:

gbutler at gbutler-Oryx-Pro:~/Rust/rfcs/text$ sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 94.2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.6ubuntu2 [27.6 kB]
Fetched 27.6 kB in 0s (143 kB/s)                     
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
(Reading database ... 286381 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 1s (188 kB/s)                                                              
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=iweb.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=iweb.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443]
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...


One thing I noticed, is that it isn't consistent on which font it fails. It seems to be related to different mirrors and depending on which mirror is chosen it succeeds for fails. I'm thinking that the built-in list of mirrors in the package has a bunch of obsolete failing mirrors perhaps?

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails because Redirection from https to http
  is forbidden

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This started soon after upgrading to Artful.
  The logs below show the failure is not always in the same file.

  
  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 10s (19.6 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
  Fetched 554 kB in 8s (66.4 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe [168 kB]
  Fetched 168 kB in 5s (31.0 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe [246 kB]
  Fetched 246 kB in 6s (40.1 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe [646 kB]
  Fetched 646 kB in 12s (51.9 kB/s)                                              

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe [392 kB]
  Fetched 392 kB in 9s (40.5 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/impact32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ...

  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu1_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu1) over (3.6ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.184) ...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 5s (36.6 kB/s)                                               

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
    Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Failed to fetch https://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 200.236.31.2 443]
  E: Download Failed

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
  Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
  Date: Tue Aug 29 07:11:50 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-04-28 (2679 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-08-28 (0 days ago)

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