Just upgraded to 10.10 (Server) from older Debian [don't ask!], started
getting this problem. Be warned, if you haven't done much research on
this problem yet, you will find the gamut of remedies described on the
net.
For me, what worked was a BIOS update. Board: Tyan Tomcat K8E (S2865
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: policykit-1
Much failure during this Karmic - Lucid upgrade, this is only a taste.
I kept getting the message that apport was quitting because there were
too many bug reports.
The disk the system is on is sdb, not a; don't know if that's an issue
or
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50300485/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50300486/VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz
** Attachment added: VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz
** Attachment added: CoreDump.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37301677/CoreDump.gz
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37301678/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: Disassembly.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37301679/Disassembly.txt
** Attachment
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: amarok
Reported by apport (apparently) during dist-upgrade from Jaunty to
Karmic.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 28 19:27:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/amarokcollectionscanner',
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34605397/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34605398/DpkgTerminalLog.gz
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package amarok-utils 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to
overwrite
