Comment 13 for bug 998492

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Lachlan Andrew (lachlan-andrew) wrote :

I was directed to this bug report by the installation of lubuntu 13.10 and lubuntu 14.04 on an IBM X40. The bug does not seem relevant, and so I plan to file a separate bug report. However, I'm posting this here to let you know that there is a bug in the system that detects which bug has occurred during an install...

The end of /var/log/syslog is:
Dec 29 00:56:36 lubuntu ubiquity: Unpacking upstart-bin (from .../upstart-bin_1.13.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Dec 29 00:56:36 lubuntu ubiquity: dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/main/u/upstart/upstart-bin_1.13.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):
Dec 29 00:56:36 lubuntu ubiquity: trying to overwrite '/etc/bash_completion.d/upstart', which is also in package upstart 1.13.2-0ubuntu2
Dec 29 00:56:36 lubuntu ubiquity: dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Dec 29 00:56:37 lubuntu ubiquity: Processing triggers for man-db ...
Dec 29 00:56:47 lubuntu ubiquity: Errors were encountered while processing:
Dec 29 00:56:47 lubuntu ubiquity: /cdrom//pool/main/u/upstart/upstart-bin_1.13.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
Dec 29 00:56:48 lubuntu ubiquity: Error in function:
Dec 29 00:56:48 lubuntu ubiquity:
Dec 29 00:56:48 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Dec 29 00:56:48 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Dec 29 00:56:48 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: