Am also experiencing this from about 30 Ubuntu 16.04 machines in our
office. We get very regular e-mails that the flash plugin was updated,
and there's no "normal" way to silence them. As a workaround, we change
/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common to send its output to
`/dev/null`, but this
** Also affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: High
Status: Confirmed
** Tags removed: rls-bb-incoming
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"ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing..." email message repeatedly
from
The attachment "upd-not-shut-up.patch" seems to be a patch. If it
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That is not the core issue either. I, for example, have declined to
accept the license on purpose (I dislike the fonts and I prefer them not
to be installed even if some package suggests this one as a dependency),
yet I get the message.
As I said above, both print() statements in the
That's not actually the core issue at this point. The core issue at this
point is that the end-user license hasn't been accepted and there's no
way to accept it. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1655431/comments/12 .
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The core issue is that ttf-mscorefonts-installer files are repeatedly
failing to download, so you are repeatedly emailed about it. (The email
sure could be improved.)
update-notifier handles the downloads, but the actual downloads are
performed by apt-helper, and that program has trouble
Confirmed also have this bug on a 16.04 system. Installed the https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/ttf-mscorefonts-
installer/download">Debian package as a fix as per recommendation.
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** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided => High
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I suggest removing the print() call that outputs the message in question
from /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader. This script isn’t
meant to be run interactively anyway.
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The processing message actually comes from update-notifier-common which
is provided by update-notifier.
** Package changed: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) => update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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PS: Uninstalling the installer also removed the fonts from
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts , so make backup
before you uninstall it.
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I tried to debug it, but the coding style of /usr/lib/msttcorefonts
/update-ms-fonts lead me to decide I'll rather uninstall the ttf-
mscorefonts-installer after initial system setup. I'll uninstall it now
and expect the mail messages will end then.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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