Hi, I just subscribed to this mailing list because Im not sure it what Im experiencing was a bug or just a random error. I updated my Karmic today with aptitude save-upgrade and got the following error. I added some lines of the output before and after the error:
Preparing to replace eclipse-platform-data 3.5.1-0ubuntu2 (using .../eclipse-platform-data_3.5.1-0ubuntu6_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement eclipse-platform-data ... Selecting previously deselected package libequinox-osgi-java. Unpacking libequinox-osgi-java (from .../libequinox-osgi-java_3.5.1-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libequinox-osgi-java_3.5.1-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi.services_3.2.0.v20090520-1800.jar', which is also in package eclipse-rcp 0:3.5.1-0ubuntu2 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to replace libgtk2.0-common 2.18.2-1 (using .../libgtk2.0-common_2.18.3-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgtk2.0-common ... Preparing to replace libgtk2.0-dev 2.18.2-1 (using .../libgtk2.0-dev_2.18.3-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgtk2.0-dev ... The update process then continued until I got this: Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libequinox-osgi-java_3.5.1-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up libgtk2.0-common (2.18.3-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eclipse-rcp: eclipse-rcp depends on libequinox-osgi-java (= 3.5.1-0ubuntu6); however: Package libequinox-osgi-java is not installed. dpkg: error processing eclipse-rcp (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up eclipse-platform-data (3.5.1-0ubuntu6) ... Setting up libgtk2.0-0 (2.18.3-1) ... Setting up gtk2-engines-pixbuf (2.18.3-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eclipse-platform: eclipse-platform depends on eclipse-rcp (= 3.5.1-0ubuntu6); however: Package eclipse-rcp is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing eclipse-platform (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libgail18 (2.18.3-1) ... Setting up libgtk2.0-dev (2.18.3-1) ... Setting up libgail-common (2.18.3-1) ... Setting up libswt-gtk-3.5-jni (3.5.1-0ubuntu6) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eclipse-plugin-cvs: eclipse-plugin-cvs depends on eclipse-platform (= 3.5.1-0ubuntu6); however: Package eclipse-platform is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing eclipse-plugin-cvs (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eclipse-pde: eclipse-pde depends on eclipse-platform (= 3.5.1-0ubuntu6); however: Package eclipse-platform is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing eclipse-pde (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eclipse-jdt: eclipse-jdt depends on eclipse-platform (= 3.5.1-0ubuntu6); however: Package eclipse-platform is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing eclipse-jdt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libswt-gtk-3.5-java (3.5.1-0ubuntu6) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: eclipse-rcp eclipse-platform eclipse-plugin-cvs eclipse-pde eclipse-jdt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... Done Current status: 1 broken [+1], 100 updates [-14]. Afterwards I suspended my Notebook and just now resumed it and ran another safe-upgrade and everything ran through fine: Current status: 0 broken [-1], 1 update [-99]. Only one update is being kept back without any apperent reason: aptitude why evolution-data-server-common i libedataserverui1.2-8 Depends evolution-data-server-common (>= 2.26.0) aptitude why-not evolution-data-server-common Unable to find a reason to remove evolution-data-server-common. My question would be why libequinox-osgi-java failed in the first place, and second, why is the evolution package being held back? Is there a way to get aptitude to tell me the reason? Obviously why, why-not was not very conclusive. Regards Lanoxx -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
