[Bug 541595] Re: [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured

[Howard Brodale]

Gerhard GauBling, this is after the upgrade where I did not get an error
like this during or before the upgrade ended.  This is afterwards.

  I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 now but, now the Synaptic Package Manager (on
Update for other new updates too) says that the package system is
broken:

The package system is broken

Check if you are using third party repositories. If so disable them, since they are a common source of problems.
Furthermore run the following command in a Terminal: apt-get install -f

 Running apt-get install -f renders this same error (after the version
upgrade):

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic_3.2.0-24.37_i386.deb (--unpack):
 error creating directory `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-24-generic': No space left on device

 /usr shows to be:

df /usr
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5        4504400 3917004    361624  92% /usr <---- at 92% full so, why does Ubuntu 12.04 think that /usr has no space left?  Is this saying that needs more than the 8% that is available?

 If so, the the root directory, where /usr is, shows to be 54% full!
Therefore, it looks like Ubuntu 12.04 is not able to use that free space
in the root directory!  Or, why does it say that /usr is 92% full when
it has another 1.3gig of free space in the root directory?  This is
whats dumb about this.

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Title:
  [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already
  installed and configured

Status in dpkg:
  New
Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  For yet unknown reasons packages fail to install with an error like:

  dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
   package flashplugin-installer is already installed and configured

  without further error.
  This is a "one time" failure. Another run of the installation doesn't produce any error.

  Users reporting this error are also experiencing bug 545790 and bug
  545738 .

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Mar 19 00:09:06 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Package: dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu3
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

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