[8864] in athena10
ubufox and xul-ext-ubufox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob A Morzinski)
Thu Mar 8 10:01:34 2012
From: "Jacob A Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: "debathena@mit.edu" <debathena@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 15:01:30 +0000
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Hi,
My debathena machine has developed some kind of problem with Apt.
Jon looked at it and asked me to send some status output to this
list.
Unfortunately the problem is blocking me from installing new
software or taking security udpates, it would be good to get some
kind of fix for it. (I do have ksplice uptrack running on
computer so hopefully my kernel is okay, but I'd like to install
new packages.)
The problem:
- apt-get and the GUI package manager complain that one package
is broken, "ubufox". The broken package blocks me from
installing updates.
Trying to use the GUI update manager halts with an error window,
with the message:
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/etc/xul-ext/ubufox.js', which is also in package ubufox 0
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Trying to use command line "aptitude install" gives an error when
unpacking xul-ext-firefox:
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The following NEW packages will be installed:
xul-ext-ubufox{a}
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
ubufox
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/59.7kB of archives. After unpacking 365kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 518592 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xul-ext-ubufox (from .../xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/etc/xul-ext/ubufox.js', which is also in package ubufox 0:0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubufox:
ubufox depends on xul-ext-ubufox; however:
Package xul-ext-ubufox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ubufox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ubufox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Thanks for looking at this,
-Jacob
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
