[Bug 1005934] [NEW] KDE Daemon update notification error

[Harry Cutts]

Public bug reported:

Every time I log in, KDE Daemon displays a notification saying that
updates are available. When I click the corresponding KDE Daemon icon in
the System Tray, a long thin black rectangle appears, spanning both of
my screens. It seems to be a window, as it appears in the Task Manager,
has a window border down the left-hand side and can be moved if I drag
the area where the title bar should be. If I snap it into place by
dragging until my cursor touches a screen edge, I can see some text
inside the window (screenshot attached).

The window has a heading saying: "Data files for some packages could not
be downloadedName-ar.UTF-8: [some Arabic characters] Name-ast.UTF-8: L
[goes off-screen]"

There is also this message: "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 ..
This is a permanent failure that leaves these packages unusable on your
system. You may need to fix your Internet connection, then remove and
reinstall the packages to fix this problem."

(Both of these are on the screenshot.)

I have tried to fix the issue by reinstalling ttf-mscorefonts-installer
('sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer'), to no
avail. I have used muon-updater to do updates, which works fine, but the
notification still appears even when there are no updates available.

I am running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. I don't know why ubuntu-bug has chosen
kde4libs as the package, as 'apt-cache policy kde4libs' is unable to
locate the package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.8.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 29 15:09:16 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kde4libs
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: kde4libs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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