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Package: mdadm
Version: 1.6.0-2

Debian Dist: Sid
Linux: 2.6.5-1-686-smp #2 SMP Fri Apr 30 20:35:03 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux


*** Error description ***

When trying to upgrade this morning (August 18, 2004), the upgrade script
fails because I also have 'raidtools2' installed.
Below is a transcript of the failure: __________________________________________________________________________ ______________

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
mdadm
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/93.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 110649 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mdadm 1.6.0-1 (using .../mdadm_1.6.0-2_i386.deb) ... Stopping RAID monitor daemon: mdadm -F.
Unpacking replacement mdadm ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.6.0-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/mdrun.8.gz', which is also in
package raidtools2
Starting RAID monitor daemon: mdadm -F.
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mdadm_1.6.0-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue. __________________________________________________________________________ ______________





*** The currently installed packages are ***


# dpkg --list raidtools2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description +++-=================================-=================================-== ========================================================================== ======
ii raidtools2 1.00.3-12
Utilities to support 'new-style' RAID disks

# dpkg --list mdadm
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description +++-=================================-=================================-== ========================================================================== ======
ii mdadm 1.6.0-1
Manage MD devices aka Linux Software Raid




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