Re: Help- desktop-base - dpkg-divert - mismatch on package when removing diversion of gnome-splash.png
Hereon wrote:
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package when removing `diversion of
/usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
Hi - How can I fix this?
[...]
:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
desktop-base gnome-applets-data gstreamer0.8-oss libgtop2-2
Suggested packages:
gnome kde wmaker
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libgtop2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnome-applets-data gstreamer0.8-oss libgtop2-2
The following packages will be upgraded:
desktop-base
1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 455 not upgraded.
175 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/8210kB of archives.
After unpacking 30.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 61949 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace desktop-base 0.3.6 (using
.../desktop-base_0.3.15_all.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
when removing `diversion of /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
to /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png.orig by desktop-base'
found `local diversion of /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png
to /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png.orig'
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_0.3.15_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/desktop-base_0.3.15_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I think you could try to remove the problematic package with dpkg (as root):
dpkg -r desktop-base
If that works you can issue the "apt-get -f install" command again. I
think apt might even notice that it has to reinstall the newer version
of the desktop-base package to satisfy dependencies. If that is not the
case do it yourself: "apt-get install desktop-base".
As far as I understand the problem with the diversions during upgrades,
it has something to do with the fact that the post/pre-rm scripts which
remove the created diversions are not (fully) run during an upgrade. I
hope that explicitly removing the package with dpkg will run the
post/pre-rm scripts and create a clean slate for the installation of the
newer version.
If the dpkg command given above also fails, then you can try to be more
insistent with the "force-all" option:
dpkg --force-all -r desktop-base
Regards,
Florian
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