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
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broken symlink in qemu-kvm package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427127
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