Comment 8 for bug 1001904

I believe I am Running into the same problem:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  diff libframe6 libgeis1 libgrail5 linux-headers-3.2.0-31 linux-headers-3.2.0-31-generic linux-image-3.2.0-31-generic mktemp
  sysvutils
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ginn libgrip0 libunity-2d-private0 libunity-core-5.0-5 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic unity
  unity-2d-common unity-2d-panel unity-2d-shell unity-2d-spread unity-common unity-services
14 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/54.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 218 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 247598 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sysvutils (from .../sysvutils_2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvutils_2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/mesg.1.gz', which is also in package sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvutils_2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$

===In Case it Helps I ran this as requested by an previous comment.
$ apt-cache policy sysvutils
sysvutils:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45
  Version table:
     2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu/ubuntu/ hardy/main amd64 Packages