failure of gconf2 install, overwriting /usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi,

I'm in a locked up situation with my upgrade from Hoary to Breezy:
(Third machine to upgrade, third time is not a charm.)

The error is:

  Extracting templates from packages: 100%
  Preconfiguring packages ...
  Selecting previously deselected package gconf2.
  (Reading database ... 105815 files and directories currently
  installed.)
  Preparing to replace gconf2 2.10.1-6 (using
  .../gconf2_2.12.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement gconf2 ...
  dpkg: error processing
  /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2_2.12.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite `/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd', which is
   also in package gconf2-common
   dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2_2.12.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
	E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How do I correct this situation?  Attempting to remove gconf2-common
also errors out.

   tire:/var/cache# apt-get -f remove gconf2-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gconf2: Depends: gconf2-common (= 2.10.1-6) but it is not going to be installed
  libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.12.0-0ubuntu1) but 2.10.1-6 is to be installed
  libgnomevfs2-common: Depends: libgamin0 but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: libhal-storage1 but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: libhal1 (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: pmount (>= 0.9.5-0ubuntu4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

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