Comment 3 for bug 997024

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch

# sudo dpkg --force-all -r ubuntu-docs
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-twisted-core' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 252107 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ubuntu-docs ...

# sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  liburiparser1 lightdm
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  python-twisted-core
Suggested packages:
  python-qt3
The following packages will be upgraded:
  python-twisted-core
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1134 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1,152 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,491 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-twisted-core' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 246955 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-twisted-core 11.0.0-2 (using .../python-twisted-core_11.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-twisted-core ...
dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:985: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed.
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB

N: Ignoring file 'apt-build' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'apt-build' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'apt-build' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has no filename extension
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

# sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite -D163 /var/cache/apt/archives/python-twisted-core_11.0.0-2_all.deb
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-twisted-core' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 246955 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-twisted-core 11.0.0-2 (using .../python-twisted-core_11.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=broken due to failed removal or installation
D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( upgrade 11.0.0-2 )
Unpacking replacement python-twisted-core ...
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/.' tmp=`/..dpkg-tmp' new=`/..dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr' tmp=`/usr.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib' tmp=`/usr/lib.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugins' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugins.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/plugins.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject directory exists
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D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_basic.py' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_basic.py.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_basic.py.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject symlink creating
D000100: tarobject done and installation deferred
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra1.py' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra1.py.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra1.py.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject symlink creating
D000100: tarobject done and installation deferred
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra2.py' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra2.py.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/plugin_extra2.py.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject symlink creating
D000100: tarobject done and installation deferred
D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/process_cmdline.py' tmp=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/process_cmdline.py.dpkg-tmp' new=`/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/twisted/test/process_cmdline.py.dpkg-new'
D000100: tarobject already exists
D000100: tarobject symlink creating
dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:985: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed.