when upgrading to 11.10 problem occurred and repair does not work

Bug #903252 reported by hugh carmichael
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Bug Description

upgrade returns:

installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...

(Reading database ... 5%

(Reading database ... 10%

(Reading database ... 15%

(Reading database ... 20%

(Reading database ... 25%

(Reading database ... 30%

(Reading database ... 35%

(Reading database ... 40%

(Reading database ... 45%

(Reading database ... 50%

(Reading database ... 55%

(Reading database ... 60%

(Reading database ... 65%

(Reading database ... 70%

(Reading database ... 75%

(Reading database ... 80%

(Reading database ... 85%

(Reading database ... 90%

(Reading database ... 95%

(Reading database ... 100%

(Reading database ... 411280 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing fglrx ...

dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package

  when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by fglrx'

  found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'

dpkg: error processing fglrx (--remove):

 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2

Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 fglrx

synaptic package manager returns:

(Reading database ... 411280 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing fglrx ...
dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on package
  when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by fglrx'
  found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 to /usr/lib/fglrx/libGL.so.1.2.xlibmesa by xorg-driver-fglrx'
dpkg: error processing fglrx (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fglrx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

I can locate the files in question but cannot delete and when I went in a root and attempted to change to directory fglrx it returned no file or folder.

Hope this is the right area if not please let me know where to go. Tks.

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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

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 564593, 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.

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