package autofs5 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/sbin/automount', which is also in package autofs 0:4.1.4+debian-3ubuntu1

This should be fixed in lucid now.

Regards
chuck

Hi Chuck

Reopened as it's not fixed, yet. Looking at the debdiff it looks like the fix didn't make it into the package?

See http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39042043/autofs5_5.0.4-3.1ubuntu3_5.0.4-3.1ubuntu4.diff.gz

Only the changelog and the maintainer changed, no dependency or conflict changes...

I did a distro upgrade from karmic to lucid without using the upgrade manager. I just replaced karmic with lucid in my sources.list, updated, and did a apt-get dist-upgrade. So medibuntu, partner, backports, updates, restricted & multiverse were enabled during the upgrade as well. I did this because I already had the debs on my local server using approx and didn't want to have to download them again.

Two packages hung up, autofs/autofs5 & libanyevent-perl. I removed those and a a couple of programs that depended upon them with 'apt-get remove' and the dist-upgrade continued. Or at least the machine thrashed around and installed a bunch of programs. I had to continue with 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after both rounds of program removals and subsequent upgrades. When I finished upgrading I rebooted but couldn't log in to KDE, I was bounced back to the KDM. So I'm now using Gnome, but I got a warning that that I didn't have autofs and libanyevent, so I sent the automated bug report (I believe) and was escorted to this page. Now that I'm back in the GUI I successfully installed autofs and libanyevent-perl, so I'll try KDE again.

 BTW, I updated another machine with a similar process a couple of days ago and had a similar experience, again, those two packages required manual removal for the upgrade to lucid to go throw. Perhaps I'm just having these issues because I have so many extraneous repositories enabled during my upgrade.

This bug was fixed in the package autofs5 - 5.0.5-0ubuntu2

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autofs5 (5.0.5-0ubuntu2) maverick; urgency=low

  [Joel Ebel]
  * debian/patches/16group_buffer_size.patch: Increase group buffer size
    geometrically rather than linearly when its found to be small.
    (LP: #591100)

  [Chuck Short]
  * debian/control: Fix conflict resolution. (LP: #520601)
 -- Chuck Short <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:06:45 -0400