Error installing upgraded cupsys

[Martin Olsson]

I just did a update/upgrade in synaptic and while a new version of cupsys was being installed there was a minor error message about some HTML invalid entity. See attached screenshot for details.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Setting affected package to "cupsys".

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The file causing the problem is

/usr/share/omf/windows/windows-C.omf

which is part of ubuntu-docs. I do not know why this complaint appears during the update of CUPS.

Can you check whether CUPS got really updated ("dpkg -l '*cupsys*'")? What happens if you run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" on the command line? Does it tell in the end about packages whose installation/configuration could not be completed? Which packages get listed?

[Matthew East (mdke)]

Definitely an ubuntu-docs bug. Don't worry about giving more information; we'll check and confirm

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

FWIW

mnemo@gutsyT5:~$ dpkg -l '*cupsys*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii cupsys 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cupsys-bsd 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cupsys-client 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cupsys-common 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
un cupsys-driver-gimpprint <none> (no description available)
un cupsys-driver-gimpprint- <none> (no description available)
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.1-0ubuntu3 printer drivers for CUPS
un cupsys-pstoraster <none> (no description available)
un cupsys-pt <none> (no description available)
ii libcupsys2 1.3.0-4ubuntu3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
mnemo@gutsyT5:~$

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Not a cupsys bug; it's just coincidence that it appeared here.

[uga (yegor-jbanov)]

I have noticed exactly the same lines in my upgrade log the first time (sorry, the evidence was lost), but I also have additional symptoms (see below). When I unchecked cupsys from the upgrade list the upgrade finished without errors and only cupsys is left as an upgradable package.

Trying to upgrade cupsys now fails with a GUI message:

"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/CREDITS.txt', which is also in package libcupsys2"

In the log:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 136800 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cupsys 1.3.2-1ubuntu1 (using .../cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Ignoring nonregistered document cupsys
 * Stopping Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
Unpacking replacement cupsys ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/CREDITS.txt', which is also in package libcupsys2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
 * Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
   ...done.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

[Francisco Athens (freelikegnu)]

I can confirm uga's report as I experienced the same issue...

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/CREDITS.txt', which is also in package libcupsys2

[Francisco Athens (freelikegnu)]

Shall I change to confimed?

[Florian Rohde (floggy)]

Exactly the same problem on my system:

"dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/cupsys_1.3.2-1ubuntu4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 Versuche, »/usr/share/doc/libcupsys2/CREDITS.txt« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket libcupsys2 ist"

[Kansei (clauretano)]

I can also confirm uga's report, but it's not the same bug from what I can tell. I'm still trying to find the right bug report

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

uga's problem is not the original problem reported in this bug, it is bug 149106. Please discuss that problem there.

[Francisco Athens (freelikegnu)]

Seems like this is fixed now, thanks!

[Francisco Athens (freelikegnu)]

whoops my bad...

[Bilbo (dale-pearl)]

if you remove kubuntu-docs from the command line and reinstall it it works just fine.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kubuntu-docs

sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-docs
and then once it completes:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-docs