[Bug 1656776] Re: fails to download andale32.exe, spams my cron every night

[Nathanaël Naeri]

More likely to be a manifestation of bug 1607535, fixed in the
development release by bug 1651923.

Please check those bugs, try and install manually with "sudo apt-get
install [--reinstall] ttf-mscorefonts-installer" or "sudo dpkg-
reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer" depending on whether the package
is installed or not on your system, compare error messages, and add
duplicate status if it is indeed one.

Also, you'll find possible workarounds in bug 1607535.

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Title:
  fails to download andale32.exe, spams my cron every night

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every night since January 12 2017 I'm getting an error like this from
  cron:

      From: Cron Daemon <root at xenial64.lan>
      To: root at xenial64.lan
      Subject: Cron <root at xenial64> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
      Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 04:25:33 +0000 (UTC)

      /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
      W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user
      '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
      E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
      E: Download Failed
      ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
      ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jan 16 10:01:49 2017
  JournalErrors:
   Error: command ['journalctl', '-b', '--priority=warning', '--lines=1000'] failed with exit code 1: Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
         Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
         turn off this notice.
   No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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