python-imaging failed to upgrade : pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files

[Felipe Ferreri Tonello]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Error when updating from 8.04 to 8.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.32
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

thanks for your report. The error is

=====
Setting up python-imaging (1.1.6-3) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing python-imaging (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
=====

affecting to python-imaging

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Did you install a previous version by hand ?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Additionally, could you please provide the output of :
sudo pycentral -v pkginstall python-imaging

Thanks.

[Chris Rossi (chris-christophermrossi)]

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Additionally, could you please provide the output of :
> sudo pycentral -v pkginstall python-imaging
>
> Thanks.
>
>
pycentral: pycentral -v pkginstall python-imaging
pycentral: reading /usr/share/pyshared-data/python-imaging
pycentral: Using python-version from pkgconfig: 2.4, 2.5
pycentral: avail=['2.5', '2.4'], pkg=2.4, 2.5, install=['2.5', '2.4']
pycentral: install package python-imaging
pycentral: link shared files python2.5/python-imaging
pycentral: byte-compile files (79/79) python2.5
pycentral: ['/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL.pth',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/ArgImagePlugin.py', '...']
pycentral: link shared files python2.4/python-imaging
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files
pycentral pkginstall: not overwriting local files

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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 291262, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.