package splashy (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh', which is also in package lsb-base 0:4.0-0ubuntu8

[Plamen Nachev]

Binary package hint: splashy

Using this command:
sudo apt-get install startupmanager

And after that:
sudo apt-get install splashy splashy-themes

Caused some crash in dependencies of the packages. No idea why or what for...

Might be similar to bug #502486 apt-get install splashy - crash on ubuntu karmic ( from dist-upgrade). However, its non-Eng language and I have no idea if its related.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: splashy (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 8 00:10:46 2010
ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh', which is also in package lsb-base 0:4.0-0ubuntu8
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: splashy
Title: package splashy (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh', which is also in package lsb-base 0:4.0-0ubuntu8

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[kennedy (ralphkennedy)]

It's annoying though even if not a security issue. I've got a dual boot linuxmint and lucid setup at the moment and I thought I could use splashy to get the linuxmint splash screen not to show up when booting lucid, which is the distro I actually use. For what it may be worth here's what I get:

sudo apt-get install splashy
.....
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  splashy-themes console-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  splashy
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1,181kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,839kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 224440 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking splashy (from .../splashy_0.3.13-5ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/splashy_0.3.13-5ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh', which is also in package lsb-base 0:4.0-0ubuntu8
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/splashy_0.3.13-5ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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 328089, 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.