Bug submission fails - ttf-msttrcorfonts-installer -- SOLVED

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:35 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/2012 04:29 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> I'm having weird problems with this.
>>
>> I try to use scripts to manage the packages for me, so that I can keep
>> track of what I have and why.
>> I just added the playonlinux package, dragging in a slew of other
>> stuff, including the package
>>    ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>> or at least that's what Synaptic called it.\
>>
>> The apt-get run was executing under script(1) in an xterm so that I
>> could refer back to what happened.  But what happened was quite
>> unexpected: the terminal color changed and I was suddenly looking at a
>> blueish window that appeared to be (part of) a character-based dialog
>> box.  All progress stopped, but I could not find a way to respond to
>> the dialog.  I had to reboot before I could get synaptic to even try
>> the installation manually (it kept complaining about inability to get
>> locks).
>>
>> I got it installed, but wanted to submit a bug report.  Things got
>> even more weird.  The browser that ubuntu-bug brought up is calling
>> the package "msttcorefonts", which synaptic does not seem to know
>> about.  But the biggie is that I've been looking at a message: "Please
>> wait while bug data is processed. This page will refresh every 10
>> seconds until processing is complete." for a half-hour now, and this
>> is not the first time I've tried.  I'm making a wild guess that the
>> bug stuff is also having problems with that package.
>>
>> SO: is there a good way to report a bug about bug-reporting that does
>> not involve ubuntu-bug?  Or maybe I could use ubuntu-bug if I could
>> figure out what package it belongs to (synaptic does not know about
>> "ubuntu-bug" either).  There's probably an app for that, just not one
>> whose name I remember.
>>
>
> Not sure whether you wish to submit a bug report for
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer or apport.
>
> $ ubuntu-bug ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> does end up at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts.
>
> I think the confusion is that the ttf-mscorefonts-installer is built
> from msttcorefonts:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts
>  --> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> If you 'sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts'
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' instead of 'msttcorefonts'
>
> I suspect because it's a download installer (cat
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer) that it's similar to the Adobe Flash
> installer: flashplugin-nonfree/flashplugin-installer/flashplugin-downloader.
>
> Before you file a bug report, you might try asking at:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts
> first.

Thanks for that last.  There was already an inquiry and solution on that site.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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