Andrew Schulman wrote, on 2007-07-23 01:21:
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
`/usr/share/man/man5/modules.5.gz' with
  different file `/usr/share/man/man5/modules.modutils.5.gz', not
allowed

Correct.  On my host I had to run

find /sbin /usr/share/man -name \*.modutils\* | xargs rm

before module-init-tools would finally allow itself to be installed.


I did the command:

find /sbin /usr/share/man -name \*.modutils\* | xargs rm

then tried the update again:

Preparing to replace module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 (using .../module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement module-init-tools ...
Setting up module-init-tools (3.3-pre11-4) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 ...
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/sbin/lsmod' with
  different file `/sbin/lsmod.Lmodutils', not allowed
dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 module-init-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up module-init-tools (3.3-pre11-4) ...
dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/sbin/lsmod' with
  different file `/sbin/lsmod.Lmodutils', not allowed
dpkg: error processing module-init-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 module-init-tools

Regards,

Arthur.


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