Problem with Updatemanager and apt-get upgrade

[Tim Frost]

Roger,


Your message shows several separate items to be addressed:
1: packages that are no longer needed
2: a crash (or possible previous crash)
3: install failure because of a symbolic link 'owned' by the wrong
package

Item 3 is the critical one.  It appears that the versions of
openjdk-6-jre-headless and of default-jre-headless on that laptop *both*
claim to own the symbolic link /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk:
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk', which is also 
in package default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2



My system (64-bit precise) has 
  default-jre-headless: 1:1.6-43ubuntu2
  openjdk-6-jre-headless: 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

and the link is owned by default-jre-headless:
$ ls -ld /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec  3  2011 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
-> java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
default-jre-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk

So the conflict doesn't exist for 64-bit systems.


This looks like a packaging bug between openjdk-6-jre-headless
6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 and default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2 on
32-bit systems.


On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 17:28 +1000, Roger wrote:
> We have Ubuntu Precise on all machines here.
> 
> On the Dell laptop there is an issue I cannot resolve and would 
> appreciate some help if possible please.
> 
> Running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as sudo su, I get an error 
> message as below.
> I have run apt-get autoremove on each one, then apt-get autoclean
>   Googled MaxReports - /var/crash is empty, there is no .crash file as 
> mentioned in
> http://languor.us/kubuntu-precise-no-apport-report-written-because-maxreports-reached-already.
> 
> Tried removing the files reported as no longer required, they will not 
> remove.
> 
> Still get the MaxReports error
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Roger
> 
> Error message:
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>    libbuilder-ruby1.8 libindicator6 libx264-116 unity-2d-launcher 
> librack-ruby1.8 libgtkspell3-0 libminiupnpc5
>    libi18n-ruby1.8 libmusicbrainz4c2a libvpx0 libmagickcore3 
> libmagick++3 libmagickwand3 libmagickcore3-extra
>    libnl3 libattica0 libid3tag0 libindicator3-6 libnatpmp1 unity-2d-places
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> Suggested packages:
>    sun-java6-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic 
> ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-telugu-fonts
>    ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>    openjdk-6-jre-headless
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
> 17 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 27.3 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 239 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main 
> openjdk-6-jre-headless i386 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 [27.3 MB]
> Fetched 27.3 MB in 59s (458 kB/s)
> (Reading database ... 339546 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu2 (using 
> .../openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement openjdk-6-jre-headless ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10..1_i386.deb 
> (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk', which is also 
> in package default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2
> No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>                                                                Errors 
> were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 

-- 
Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>
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