I have played a little with Synaptic and managed to obtain detailed info: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (Can't locate object method "signal_connect" via package "Gtk2::Window" at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 73, <> line 1.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog (Reading database ... 82222 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace coreutils 5.2.1-2ubuntu2 (using .../coreutils_5.93-5ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... Removing `local diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz' with different file `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.93-5ubuntu4_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.93-5ubuntu4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Workaround: I do not know which file was about to overwrite which file - in fact I do not care. I moved both files out o a way, repeated the upgrade form Synaptic and all goes fine. -- Upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 errors on coreutils_5.93-5ubuntu4_i386.deb https://launchpad.net/bugs/56028 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
