Package: coreutils Version: 7.4-2 Severity: normal Whilst doing my regular weekly system upgrade, I ran into this problem. I use dselect or apt-get to upgrade, and don't do anything (no speicalised use of dpkg). Here's a session log, after reducing the problem to just coreutils by using dpkg -i <package> for all the others.
frobenius:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing Release.gpg [835B] Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing Release [89.5kB] Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release Ign http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/contrib Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/non-free Sources/DiffIndex Fetched 90.3kB in 2s (43.8kB/s) Reading package lists... Done frobenius:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: pidentd rsh-server telnetd The following packages will be upgraded: coreutils 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4608kB of archives. After this operation, 970kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading changelogs... Done debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline (Reading database ... 149541 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace coreutils 7.4-2 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement coreutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', which is the diverted version of `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz' dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for install-info ... install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/xemacs21/emodules.info.gz' Processing triggers for man-db ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) frobenius:~# I tried forcing dpkg using --force-overwrite-diverted, but to no avail. Here's my sources.list #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-2 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.94-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
