Bug#119267: apt: Sometimes bombs out after unpacking lots of packages without configuring them
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
In the following case after a single bad package fails to unpack apt proceeds
to unpack several dozen more packages then exits. It fails to install about 40
more packages for no reason, and it doesn't even configure the 20 packages it
unpacked. I suppose the work-around is the same as it was for dselect, keep
repeating the command until all the packages are installed?
63 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 644 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.1MB of archives. After unpacking 3913kB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 88769 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace scrollkeeper 0.2-1 (using .../scrollkeeper_0.2-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement scrollkeeper ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/scrollkeeper_0.2-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc-base/scrollkeeper', which is also in package libscrollkeeper0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace sendip 1.4-1 (using .../archives/sendip_1.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sendip ...
Preparing to replace sgml-base 1.10 (using .../sgml-base_1.11_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sgml-base ...
Preparing to replace sgml-data 1.5.2 (using .../sgml-data_1.5.3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sgml-data ...
Preparing to replace siag-common 3.4.7-2 (using .../siag-common_3.4.10-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siag-common ...
Preparing to replace siagoffice-plugins 3.4.7-2 (using .../siagoffice-plugins_3.4.10-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siagoffice-plugins ...
Preparing to replace siagoffice-common 3.4.7-2 (using .../siagoffice-common_3.4.10-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siagoffice-common ...
Preparing to replace sing 1.0-3 (using .../archives/sing_1.1-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sing ...
Preparing to replace smtp-refuser 1.0.3 (using .../smtp-refuser_1.0.4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement smtp-refuser ...
Preparing to replace so-far 6-7 (using .../archives/so-far_6-9_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement so-far ...
Preparing to replace socket 1.1-5 (using .../archives/socket_1.1-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement socket ...
Preparing to replace sortmail 19910421-5 (using .../sortmail_19910421-7_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sortmail ...
Preparing to replace sox 12.17.1-2 (using .../sox_12.17.1-5.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement sox ...
Preparing to replace spamfilter 1.8-1 (using .../spamfilter_1.9-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement spamfilter ...
Preparing to replace spellcast 1.0-8 (using .../spellcast_1.0-9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement spellcast ...
Preparing to replace splay 0.9.5.1-1 (using .../splay_0.9.5.1-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement splay ...
Preparing to replace squid-cgi 2.4.1-3 (using .../squid-cgi_2.4.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement squid-cgi ...
Preparing to replace squidclient 2.4.1-3 (using .../squidclient_2.4.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement squidclient ...
Preparing to replace ssh-askpass-gnome 1:2.5.2p2-1 (using .../ssh-askpass-gnome_1%3a2.9p2-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ssh-askpass-gnome ...
Preparing to replace ssleay 0.9.6-2 (using .../ssleay_0.9.6b-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ssleay ...
Preparing to replace steghide 0.3.1-3 (using .../steghide_0.3.1-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement steghide ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/scrollkeeper_0.2-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
bash-2.05
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux stark.2y.net 2.4.14 #1 Sat Nov 10 23:52:19 EST 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01082 The GNU stdc++ library
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