[Bug 1165890] Re: libxml2-dev update is broken

[Brian Murray]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1044261 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044261

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1044261
   update-notifier: backend_helper.py crashed with TransactionFailed in _run()

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Title:
  libxml2-dev update is broken

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  
  james at james-P5K:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
  [sudo] password for james: 
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libxml2-dev:i386
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    libxml2-dev:i386
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/761 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  (Reading database ... 666880 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace libxml2-dev:i386 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.3 (using .../libxml2-dev_2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement libxml2-dev:i386 ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2-dev_2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
   './usr/bin/xml2-config' is different from the same file on the system
  No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
                                                                      dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libxml2-dev_2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  james at james-P5K:~$ ^C

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.63-generic 3.2.40
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr  7 22:37:45 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/update-notifier/backend_helper.py
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/update-notifier/backend_helper.py install_all_updates
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/update-notifier/backend_helper.py', 'install_all_updates']
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  Title: backend_helper.py crashed with libxml2-dev in _run()
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-10 (332 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare wireshark

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