Comment 21 for bug 431217

To me it seems a pb of DNS time out.

I solved the pb with this workaround/dirty patch.

In the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst (coming with package first install),
I removed the DNS time out in watchdog line 148 to get
> if ! wget --continue --tries=1 --connect-timeout=5 --read-timeout=300 $QUIET_ARG --directory-prefix . --no-directories --no-background $URLROOT$ff ; then
instead of
> if ! wget --continue --tries=1 --dns-timeout=10 --connect-timeout=5 --read-timeout=300 $QUIET_ARG --directory-prefix . --no-directories --no-background $URLROOT$ff ; then

But I can not tell you why it failed with this package and not with others.

Does this work hack for others as well?

-- Laurent