msttcorefonts failed to install/upgrade : Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/

i hope that i will manage to revive my system :-)!

the update manager and synaptic do not work.

the sudo command is not responsive

~$ sudo aptitude install update-manager-core
sudo: unable to resolve host shaula-laptop

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade to this bugreport.

Thanks,
 Michael

If sudo does no longer work on the regular system, you can use the live-dvd to access your filesystem or you can use the grub recovery mode.

The problem was resolved based on:
http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?p=4480244 and another webpage that i lost

in System-Administration-Network-Hosts i renamed localhost to its original computer name.
this step solved the issue.

@shaula: thanks for the additional information. I would still to have the logs to see what caused the initial problem. could you attach them please?

ups, forgot about the bug. I have attached the following files inside:
term.log
main.log
apt.log
apt-term.log

the corrected host file is attached too. the first line was corrected to:
127.0.0.1 shaula-laptop

instead of (if i recall correctly):
127.0.0.1 localhost

Thanks for the logs. It appears that for some reason msttcorefonts couldn't download stuff from the internet. What is your $http_proxy environment?

Setting up msttcorefonts (2.4) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/defoma/hints/msttcorefonts.hints ...
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.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
andale32.exe: No such file or directory
All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Hi,

two things:

1. " ... $http_proxy environment?"? what is that ?

2. i have this bug for some time and i did not managed to find a
solution to it so i am ignoring it. do you have a hint?

Shaul

Michael Vogt wrote:

> Thanks for the logs. It appears that for some reason msttcorefonts
> couldn't download stuff from the internet. What is your $http_proxy
> environment?
>
> Setting up msttcorefonts (2.4) ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/defoma/hints/msttcorefonts.hints ...
> 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.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
> andale32.exe: No such file or directory
> All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
> dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> ** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: update-manager => msttcorefonts
>
>

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Shaul Avraham

Department of materials engineering
Technion- Israel institute of technology
Haifa 32000
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