[Logcheck-devel] Bug#252556: Logcheck upgrade/install error using apt-get

Carlo Cossu ccossu at charter.net
Fri Jun 4 04:45:43 UTC 2004


Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.21

System details:
Kernel: Linux <host> 2.4.23 #1 SMP Tue Jan 6 18:06:18 PST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Shared C library version: 2.3.2.ds1-13

Problem:

While performing a regular apt-get upgrade, I received an error when apt 
was attempting to upgrade logcheck. Here are the details:
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#apt-get upgrade
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    logcheck: Depends: logcheck-database (= 1.2.21) but 1.2.20a is installed
Unpacking replacement logcheck-database ...
  dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck-database_1.2.21_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite 
`/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-sendmail', which is also in 
package sendmail
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck-database_1.2.21_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I removed the package and attempted to do a re-install, but received a 
similar error:
---------------------
totally:/etc# apt-get install logcheck
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   logcheck-database
Suggested packages:
   syslog-summary
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   logcheck logcheck-database
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/76.3kB of archives.
After unpacking 484kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 38048 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking logcheck-database (from .../logcheck-database_1.2.21_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck-database_1.2.21_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite 
`/etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/logcheck-sendmail', which is also in 
package sendmail
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Selecting previously deselected package logcheck.
Unpacking logcheck (from .../logcheck_1.2.21_all.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/logcheck-database_1.2.21_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Any information would be appreciated.






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