[Bug 55701] Installing linux-image-2.6-686 (or 2.6-686-smp) prevents installation of sun-java5-* packages

[Andy Piper]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6-686

After installing the linux-image-686 (or linux-image-686-smp) package on
a base 6.06 installation the packages sun-java5-bin, sun-java5-jre and
sun-java5-plugin cannot be installed via apt-get. I'm guessing that this
will be the same for the rest of the sun-java5-* family of packages.

Rebooting after installing the new kernel image may or may not be
required for this to happen, but it definitely occurrs after rebooting
and loading the new kernel. The error message returned from 'apt-get
install sun-java-bin' etc, is something like "there are no packages of
that name in your selected channels".

Rebooting and loading the default 386 kernel image does not provide a
workaround, but manually downloading and installing with dpkg does work.
I did not try uninstalling the 686 kernel.

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Installing linux-image-2.6-686 (or 2.6-686-smp) prevents installation of sun-java5-* packages
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55701