I can not chage sesion to kde- some packages are broken.

[Nabil]

N/A

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 16 11:10:26 2010
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Log started: 2010-12-16 11:10:07
 (Reading database ... 271405 files and directories currently installed.)
 Unpacking kdebase-runtime-data (from .../kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/kcmkonsole/index.cache.bz2', which is also in package konsole
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/kcmkonsole/index.cache.bz2', which is also in package konsole
Package: kdebase-runtime-data None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase-runtime-data.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: kdebase-runtime
Title: package kdebase-runtime-data None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase-runtime-data.list] failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/kcmkonsole/index.cache.bz2', which is also in package konsole
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello

can you please run in a terminal
sudo apt-get clean
and run again update manager?
Thanks
Fabio

[Nabil (ndrawil)]

This is what I got when I tried to run again update manager:
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (Unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome2-perl installed?)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs
shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
(Reading database ... 271405 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kdebase-runtime-data (from
.../kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite
`/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kcontrol/kcmkonsole/index.cache.bz2', which
is also in package konsole
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking kdebase-data (from
.../kdebase-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kfind/index.cache.bz2',
which is also in package kfind
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-runtime-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-data_4%3a4.2.2-0ubuntu4_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 kdebase-bin:
 kdebase-bin depends on kdebase-data (= 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu4); however:
  Package kdebase-data is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kdebase-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdebase-runtime:
 kdebase-runtime depends on kdebase-runtime-data (>=
4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1); however:
  Package kdebase-runtime-data is not installed.
dpkg: error processing kdebase-runtime (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4:
 kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 depends on kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.1); however:
  Package kdebase-runtime is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkleo4:
 libkleo4 depends on kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.1); however:
  Package kdebase-runtime is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libkleo4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkpgp4:
 libkpgp4 depends on kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.1); however:
  Package kdebase-runtime is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libkpgp4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kmail:
 kmail depends on kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.1); however:
  Package kdebase-runtime is not configured yet.
 kmail depends on libkleo4 (= 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1.1); however:
  Package libkleo4 is not configured yet.
 kmail depends on libkp...

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Kubuntu 8.04 reached its end of life on November, 2009
Please see this document for currently supported Kubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Unfortunately this means that there will be no more bugfixes for Kubuntu 8.04. It is also recommended that you upgrade, if you have not already.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find, and thanks for your understanding.