[maemo-developers] Sardine device upgrade failing for days now

[From: Kemal Hadimli]

worked for me two days ago, after failing a few times.

what I did was to try booting from it after a chroot upgrade, do the
upgrade again, then try another chrooted upgrade, etc.

On 7/13/07, Neil MacLeod <gmane at nmacleod.com> wrote:
> Neil MacLeod wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Sardine has been failing for about 12 days now, and maybe longer - I've been trying to test Sardine since the beginning of July. The upgrade always fails at the same point with osso-thumbnail0. This is the output from the upgrade:
> >
> >       Preparing to replace osso-thumbnail0 0.7-1 (using .../osso-thumbnail0_0.9_armel.deb) ...
> >       Unpacking replacement osso-thumbnail0 ...
> >       Errors were encountered while processing:
> >        /var/cache/apt/archives/dbus_1.0.2-0osso8_armel.deb
> >       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> > My /etc/apt/sources.list file is:
> >
> >       #maemo:essential
> >       deb http://repository.maemo.org sardine main non-free
> >
> > It makes no difference if I'm upgrading 3.2007 or 4.2007 on my N800.
> >
> > Any idea how to fix Sardine?
> >
> > Many thanks.
>
> Ok, so it's not osso-thumbnail0 with the error - it's dbus_1.0.2-0osso8_armel.deb! :)
>
> Here's the dbus related output:
>
>         Preparing to replace dbus 0.61-osso28 (using .../dbus_1.0.2-0osso8_armel.deb) ...
>
>         Unpacking replacement dbus ...
>         dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dbus_1.0.2-0osso8_armel.deb (--unpack):
>          trying to overwrite `/var/run', which is also in package ssh
>         dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>         groupadd: group messagebus exists
>         useradd: user messagebus exists
>         mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/run/': No such file or directory
>         invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "start" failed.
>         dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>          subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
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Kemal