error while processing console-common_0.7.41_all.deb
Hi,
I installed Sid on a computer in my internal home network yesterday. In
the process, I am getting a problem with respect to
console-common_0.7.41_all.deb . Whats the deal with this file? I
dist-upgrade a minimal testing install to unstable. Used dselect to
install KDE and Gnome and everything else. The console-common has been
giving problem in all the methods I tried dselect as well as apt-get.
Here is what apt-get says:
23:30:13:~# apt-get update
Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Packages
Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Release
Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Sources
Hit http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://mirror.pudas.net unstable/main Packages
Hit http://mirror.pudas.net unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit http://mirror.pudas.net unstable/main Sources
Hit http://mirror.pudas.net unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
23:30:16:~# apt-get -s upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
console-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
23:30:27:~# apt-get install console-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following held packages will be changed:
console-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
console-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 74.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 115kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main console-common 0.7.41 [74.0kB]
Fetched 74.0kB in 0s (167kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 184432 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.38 (using
.../console-common_0.7.41_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
23:31:11:~# ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-common.config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16625 Mar 22 06:57
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-common.config
23:32:43:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
regards,
->HS
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