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Robert Stillman (rstillmn) wrote : Re: [Bug 1726173] Re: package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has changed from 60 to 0

Thanks for the advice on cleaning up the disk. I'll give it a go later
this morning. Thanks again, you've been a great help!

On Oct 23, 2017 9:11 AM, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1364642 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364642
>
> Great that it worked. Actually this kind of problem has been reported
> several times before, which is the reason why I marked this report as a
> duplicate bug.
>
> One thing I see is that there seems to be room for cleaning up your disk
> from unneeded packages by running the command:
>
> sudo apt autoremove
>
> (That command will take quite some time to complete.)
>
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> Title:
> package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link
> '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has
> changed from 60 to 0
>
> Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Upgrading 16.04.4 to 17.04 via Software Updater. All went well until
> almost the last few minutes when I got the error msg: "Could not
> install 'var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_17.04.03_all.deb'". Added
> message was: Symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-
> sources.page' size has changed from 60 to 0.
>
> Shortly thereafter I got a second error: "Could not install
> ubuntu.docs" Additional msg was: "Package ubuntu-docs is already
> installed and configured" (Quotes in both cases are mine)
> A few seconds later I got the Error that the upgrade failed then the
> screen reverted back to the desktop.
>
> At that point I opened a terminal to check to see what was really
> running and got:
>
> r@r-M-7301U:~$ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 17.04
> Release: 17.04
> Codename: zesty
> r@r-M-7301U:~$
>
> I was running 16.04.4 when I started.
>
> Hope this covers what happened vs what I expected.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
> Package: ubuntu-docs 16.04.4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-37.41-generic 4.10.17
> Uname: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.5
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Oct 22 17:29:16 2017
> DuplicateSignature:
> package:ubuntu-docs:16.04.4
> Unpacking ubuntu-docs (17.04.3) over (16.04.4) ...
> dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ubuntu-docs_17.04.3_all.deb
> (--unpack):
> symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page'
> size has changed from 60 to 0
> ErrorMessage: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page'
> size has changed from 60 to 0
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-15 (99 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386
> (20160803)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu2
> apt 1.4.6~17.04.1
> SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
> Title: package ubuntu-docs 16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic
> link '/usr/share/help/br/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.page' size has
> changed from 60 to 0
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-10-22 (0 days ago)
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