Problem with Updatemanager and apt-get upgrade

[Roger]

Tim thanks for your reply.

yes  ls -ld /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk shows the link.
I am puzzled because we have had 64 bit on the laptop for a couple of 
years or more.

I did unlink /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk but error remains.
What steps should be followed to remove offending packages and reset the 
system?

This is way out of my league so pointers or specific directions would 
greatly assist.
Thanks in advance
Roger



> Roger,
>
>
> Your message shows several separate items to be addressed:
> 1: packages that are no longer needed
> 2: a crash (or possible previous crash)
> 3: install failure because of a symbolic link 'owned' by the wrong
> package
>
> Item 3 is the critical one.  It appears that the versions of
> openjdk-6-jre-headless and of default-jre-headless on that laptop *both*
> claim to own the symbolic link /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk:
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk', which is also
> in package default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2
>
>
>
> My system (64-bit precise) has
>    default-jre-headless: 1:1.6-43ubuntu2
>    openjdk-6-jre-headless: 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
>
> and the link is owned by default-jre-headless:
> $ ls -ld /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec  3  2011 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
> -> java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
> $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
> default-jre-headless: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk
>
> So the conflict doesn't exist for 64-bit systems.
>
>
> This looks like a packaging bug between openjdk-6-jre-headless
> 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 and default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2 on
> 32-bit systems.
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 17:28 +1000, Roger wrote:
>> We have Ubuntu Precise on all machines here.
>>
>> On the Dell laptop there is an issue I cannot resolve and would
>> appreciate some help if possible please.
>>
>> Running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as sudo su, I get an error
>> message as below.
>> I have run apt-get autoremove on each one, then apt-get autoclean
>>    Googled MaxReports - /var/crash is empty, there is no .crash file as
>> mentioned in
>> http://languor.us/kubuntu-precise-no-apport-report-written-because-maxreports-reached-already.
>>
>> Tried removing the files reported as no longer required, they will not
>> remove.
>>
>> Still get the MaxReports error
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Roger
>>
>> Error message:
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>     libbuilder-ruby1.8 libindicator6 libx264-116 unity-2d-launcher
>> librack-ruby1.8 libgtkspell3-0 libminiupnpc5
>>     libi18n-ruby1.8 libmusicbrainz4c2a libvpx0 libmagickcore3
>> libmagick++3 libmagickwand3 libmagickcore3-extra
>>     libnl3 libattica0 libid3tag0 libindicator3-6 libnatpmp1 unity-2d-places
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>> Suggested packages:
>>     sun-java6-fonts ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-gothic
>> ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-telugu-fonts
>>     ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-bengali-fonts
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>     openjdk-6-jre-headless
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
>> 17 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 27.3 MB of archives.
>> After this operation, 239 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main
>> openjdk-6-jre-headless i386 6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1 [27.3 MB]
>> Fetched 27.3 MB in 59s (458 kB/s)
>> (Reading database ... 339546 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace openjdk-6-jre-headless 6b24-1.11.1-4ubuntu2 (using
>> .../openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement openjdk-6-jre-headless ...
>> dpkg: error processing
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10..1_i386.deb
>> (--unpack):
>>    trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk', which is also
>> in package default-jre-headless 1:1.6-43ubuntu2
>> No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>>                                                                 Errors
>> were encountered while processing:
>>    /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-6-jre-headless_6b24-1.11.3-1ubuntu0.11.10.1_i386.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
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