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  1. Bug #1015567
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1015567

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Adam Porter (alphapapa) wrote :

This bug is not fixed! I just tried to upgrade from Precise to Quantal. do-release-upgrade failed for some reason, and now dpkg fails with:

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29257 package 'odbcinst':
 mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

It won't LET me purge the package, because of that error!

dpkg:
  Installed: 1.16.7ubuntu6
  Candidate: 1.16.7ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 1.16.7ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The Perl script linked in the bug description doesn't help--all it does is tell me to purge that package with dpkg, which doesn't work!

I knew I shouldn't have tried to upgrade. Every time I upgrade from one Ubuntu release to another, I encounter a weird problem that is worse than the last time I upgraded Ubuntu.

The worst part of all? This bug has been on Launchpad for over 6 months, and was reported on the Debian lists last March, but it's still not fixed, and Quantal was released like this! I've been using Ubuntu since Warty, and it didn't used to be like this! What is happening to Ubuntu?!