** Description changed: * OS release: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS * Package version: 3.168.3 For the past few days (maybe even weeks for other users), update- notifier has been very repeatedly failing to handle the downloads for ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Previously it was working fine on the same system. This seems to affect a lot of desktop users, but the issue is usually misdiagnosed on forums because it is attributed to ttf-mscorefonts- installer and not to update-notifier-common. The issue is made particularly irritating because the update-notifier cron job tries and fails and notifies users daily of this failure. The issue can be reproduced by having ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed, and running: - sudo dpkg-reconfigure update-notifier-common + sudo dpkg-reconfigure update-notifier-common The error messages seem to be random but actually appear to be consistent for a given download source: * freefr.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found * kent.dl.sourceforge.net: Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl * netassist.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header Bad header data [IP: 62.205.134.42 80] * netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net: The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header * netix.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found * vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net: 404 Not Found In all above cases, the reported failing URL can be downloaded just fine using wget. - Some other mirrors appear to work (unfortunately, mirror names are only printed - in case of errors). However, since ttf-mscorefonts-installer triggers 11 downloads in a row, chances of randomly getting 11 working mirrors are very low. + Some other mirrors appear to work (unfortunately, mirror names are only + printed in case of errors). However, since ttf-mscorefonts-installer + triggers 11 downloads in a row, chances of randomly getting 11 working + mirrors are very low. + + I am tagging this as regression-update because the issue started + happening when upgrading from 3.168.2 to 3.168.3 last Friday. It is of + course entirely possible the root cause is in another package, but this + would also likely be a regression-update, since I am very careful about + system-wide changes on this machine. + + The previous update from 3.168.1 to 3.168.2 on November 4th went just + fine. ttf-mscorefonts-installer has been installed (just fine) on + September 26th, and not upgraded since then.
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