a recent dist-upgrade

[Gabriel Dragffy]

this is what I get after trying my dist-upgrade, it doesn't even seem to be 
very common from what I see on google. What's going on with my system please?

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 89654 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.12-10-686 
(from .../linux-image-2.6.12-10-686_2.6.12-10.32_i386.deb) ...
The directory /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686 still exists. Continuing as directed.
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.12-10-686_2.6.12-10.32_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite 
`/lib/modules/2.6.12-10-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.ko', which is also 
in package sony
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst .
Searching for splash image... none found, skipping...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-686
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-10-386
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.12-10-686_2.6.12-10.32_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)