Public bug reported: Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
The qemu-kvm pacakge contains a broken symlink: [...@b1 ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/kvm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-09-10 10:49 /usr/share/kvm -> qemu-kvm The /usr/share/qemu-kvm directory does not exist. This means that packages that use the /usr/share/kvm directory will fail to install: [...@b1 ~]$ sudo apt-get install kvm-pxe Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: kvm-pxe 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/156kB of archives. After this operation, 250kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 105789 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kvm-pxe (from .../kvm-pxe_5.4.3+dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.3+dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/kvm', which is also in package qemu-kvm dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/kvm-pxe_5.4.3+dfsg-0.2ubuntu1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Workaround is to change this symlink to point to /usr/share/qemu instead. [...@b1 ~]$ apt-cache policy qemu-kvm qemu-kvm: Installed: 0.11.0~rc2-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 0.11.0~rc2-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 0.11.0~rc2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.internode.on.net karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ** Affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- broken symlink in qemu-kvm package https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427127 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs