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

[Marius Gedminas]

It's quite possible there's more than one bug here!

    E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.

does not look like a 404 error from a mirror due to a misquoted URL, but
once I sudo apt install apt-transport-https, I'll probably be seeing the
bugs you mentioned.

*sigh*

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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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