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Will Taff (wrtaff) wrote : Re: [Bug 592010] Re: hardy2lucid upgrade: qemu-common should replace qemu as well as qemu-kvm / package qemu-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr', which is also in package qemu 0:0.9.1-1ubuntu1

I'm not sure I follow your question - what was not ever done?

-will

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 18:43 +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> I'm curious why this was not ever done. Was there a glitch when it
> was
> attempted?
>
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> Title:
> hardy2lucid upgrade: qemu-common should replace qemu as well as
> qemu-
> kvm / package qemu-common (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
> trying to overwrite '/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr', which is also in
> package qemu 0:0.9.1-1ubuntu1
>
> Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: qemu-kvm
>
> this probably isn't a bug - I'm probably doing this to myself - my
> Lucid upgrade from Hardy broke my working qemu setup, running a win98
> image. This is referred to in bug # 521994. To get the qemu working
> again, I removed (with aptitude) package qemu and package bochsbios
> from the lucid install, went back to the hardy archives, got those
> packages, and installed them. That way, I have a working qemu
> install. So, when updates came down the pipe per above, I tried to
> unselect all that I thought might break my working qemu setup, but I
> think I missed bochsbios; not sure. But, that's why I got the error
> above. The good news is, I was able to fix by # aptitude remove
> qemu-kvm, then
> The following packages will be REMOVED: bochsbios{u} qemu-kvm
> seabios{u} vgabios{u}
> And actually, I went back and installed package qemu with all of
> it's dependencies, but unfortunately, the lucid qemu install still
> misbehaves per bug # 521994.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: qemu-common (not installed)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Jun 9 18:20:19 2010
> ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr',
> which is also in package qemu 0:0.9.1-1ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
> Title: package qemu-common (not installed) failed to
> install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/qemu/keymaps/fr',
> which is also in package qemu 0:0.9.1-1ubuntu1
>
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