Bug#697866: libgtk-3-bin fails to upgrade to 3.4.2-5

[Michael Biebl]

On 12.01.2013 14:48, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 19:55 +0530, Vasudev Kamath a écrit :
>> On 18:55 Thu 10 Jan     , Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> On 10.01.2013 18:25, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>>>> Package: libgtk-3-bin
>>>> Version: 3.4.2-5
>>>> Severity: serious
>>>>
>>>> When trying to upgrade from 3.4.2-4 to 3.4.2-5 I get following error and
>>>> aptitude aborts
>>>>
>>>> Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches to /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 by libgtk-3-bin'
>>>> dpkg-divert: error: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2' with
>>>>   different file `/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches', not allowed
>>>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.4.2-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>>>  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtk-3-bin_3.4.2-5_amd64.deb
>>>>
>>>> This leaves the package management in broken state hence I marked the
>>>> bug as serious
>>>
>>> The relevant code hasn't been changed for ages, so I really doubt that
>>> it is a problem specific to 3.4.2-5.
>>>
>>> What does
>>> dpkg -S /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches
>>> give you.
>>
>> This command gives libgtk2.0-bin, libgtk-3-bin:/usr/sbin/update-icon-caches
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> What's the output of
>>> md5sum /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches*
>>>  
>>
>> 6a2ca9da3d9e2cbb106f36a54a782ac6  /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches
> 
> Let me summarize how I understand the state of your system:
> 
> 1. dpkg currently does not know about the diversion (since dpkg-diverts
> tries to add it during upgrade); said otherwise, the diversion is not
> listed in /var/lib/dpkg/diversions

According to the md5sum,  /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches is the one from
libgtk-3-bin_3.4.2-5. This means a previous diversion *must* have been
successful, otherwise /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches from libgtk2.0-bin
wouldn't have been replaced. I assume you have libgtk2.0-0 and
libgtk-3-bin installed for some time already?
Yet, you don't have any /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches.gtk2 and no
diversion registered for it, which is very dubious.
Have manually fiddled with dpkg-divert or force-installed some packages?

I guess in order to fix your system you need to re-install libgtk2.0-bin
first, so /usr/sbin/update-icon-caches points to the correct version of
the file, then re-install libgtk-3-bin.


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