I see the same problem, and I'm not behind a proxy of any sort. It looks like the downloader is timing out too soon. Here's the full output:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.0) ... These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross- platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format. --2009-12-29 19:25:49-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:25:59-- http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving switch.dl.sourceforge.net... 130.59.138.21, 2001:620:0:1b::21 Connecting to switch.dl.sourceforge.net|130.59.138.21|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=switch.dl.sourceforge.net [following] --2009-12-29 19:26:05-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=switch.dl.sourceforge.net Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:26:15-- http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving mesh.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `mesh.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:26:25-- http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving dfn.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `dfn.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:26:35-- http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving heanet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `heanet.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:26:45-- http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving jaist.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `jaist.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:26:55-- http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `nchc.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:27:05-- http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:27:15-- http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving internode.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `internode.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:27:25-- http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving voxel.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `voxel.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:27:35-- http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving kent.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `kent.dl.sourceforge.net' --2009-12-29 19:27:45-- http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving internap.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. wget: unable to resolve host address `internap.dl.sourceforge.net' sha256sum: andale32.exe: No such file or directory andale32.exe: FAILED open or read sha256sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 listed file could not be read Checksum mismatch for andale32.exe, aborting! dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ttf-mscorefonts-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now, all those hostnames do successfully resolve, so I'm pretty sure that the error is being incorrectly reported. Is there a workaround whereby I can manually download the packages and have the installer know about them? Firefox has no problem getting them (at least, I could download andale32.exe manually easily enough - I don't know what else is required). -- package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500803 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
