Here's an example of my problem: temp:~# apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade Hit ftp://ftp.tux.org woody/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.tux.org woody/non-free Release Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Packages Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/main Release ...snip... Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Sources Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 12 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 22 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3079kB of archives. After unpacking 29.7kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libglade2-dev' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 45667 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libart2 1.4.1.3-3 (using .../libart2_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libart2 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libart2_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libart_lgpl.so.2.2.0', which is also in package fdutils dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) ...snip... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libart2_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomesupport0_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnomeui32_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnorba27_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnorbagtk0_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-libs-data_1.4.1.4-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgnome32_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/fdutils_5.3-5_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtkxmhtml1_1.4.1.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libpanel-applet0_1.4.0.6-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
OK, obviously I did not include the entire log, if I need to let me know. A little history: I recently had a system crash IMMEDIATELY after having done an apt-get upgrade, apparently before a complete sync, and resulted in filesystem corruption in /var/lib/dpkg/. At that time I had problems, and on #debian I was instructed to 'dselect update' this seemed to fix me at the time and I was solid for a while. A few days ago I did an update ; upgrade and started getting these errors. At first I assumed that it was a packaging problem (clearly I didn't look too closely) and I didn't worry about it. After this kept happening I looked more closely and realize that dpkg is mis-assigning the installing package of several files (clearly libart_lgpl.so.2.2.0 is not in the fdutils package). So, I'm guessing that some part of my dpkg databases is still hosed. Can I fix this? How do I go about it? Thanks, Ken Causey Please note that I am not subscribed to the list, so please be sure to reply to me directly in addition to the list, as appropriate.
