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Re: is this a bug? conflict w/initscripts



At Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:41:48 -0400,
Matt Price wrote:
> [00:03:33]root@matts-mac:~$ apt-get install glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Note, selecting libc6 instead of glibc-2.3.2.ds1-11
> Suggested packages:
>   glibc-doc
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 753 not
> upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/4211kB of archives.
> After unpacking 20.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
> (Reading database ... 136582 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 (using
> .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which is also in package
> initscripts
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_powerpc.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>   
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?  My system is
> currently crippled and this problem blocks installation of everything
> else!  

Installing 2.3.2.ds1-12 (which is currently waiting in queue) fixes
your problem.

Regards,
-- gotom



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