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ifupdown package

package ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 0:4.35ubuntu2

Bug #526467 reported by Dstre4m on 2010-02-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #497299: upstart not starting init-scripts (event net-device-up IFACE=lo missing). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ifupdown (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ifupdown

happened while updating, update console was at:" processing triggers for python-support"

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 23 15:08:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 0:4.35ubuntu2
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: ifupdown
Title: package ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/init.d/networking', which is also in package netbase 0:4.35ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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Dstre4m (dsgn) wrote on 2010-02-23:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (49.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (33.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Dstre4m (dsgn) wrote on 2010-02-23:

update of package "ifupdown" succeeded after installing other available updates

Yosef Karo (yos) on 2010-02-23

Changed in ifupdown (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Mitch Towner (kermiac) wrote on 2010-02-24:

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 497299, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

It would be very helpful if someone experiencing this error could verify that the ifupdown package in -proposed (0.6.8ubuntu21.2) resolves this issue & to comment with your results in bug 497299. For info regarding enabling the -proposed repository, please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed.
Thanks in advance!