The problem appears to be that when the hotkey-setup package is being replaced, one of its scripts calls invoke-rc.d on /etc/init.d/hotkey- setup and that script returns an error which prevents the package from being removed. I saw this same behavior several times, first when I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and later when I did a "dpkg --purge --ignore- depends=ubuntu-desktop hotkey-setup".
Eventually I just added an "exit" to the beginning of /etc/init.d /hotkey-setup and then I was able to remove the package and then install the Edgy version. Here's the error message I would get when I tried to remove hotkey- setup: Preparing to replace hotkey-setup 0.1-17 (using .../hotkey-setup_0.1-17ubuntu3_i386.deb) ... KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 0 to keycode 256 invoke-rc.d: initscript hotkey-setup, action "stop" failed. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 0 to keycode 256 invoke-rc.d: initscript hotkey-setup, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hotkey-setup_0.1-17ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 8a to keycode 205 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 87 to keycode 236 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 8b to keycode 190 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 89 to keycode 161 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 85 to keycode 224 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 86 to keycode 225 KDSETKEYCODE: No such device failed to set scancode 92 to keycode 226 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/hotkey-setup_0.1-17ubuntu3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Could not install '/var/cache/apt/archives/hotkey-setup_0.1-17ubuntu3_i386.deb' https://launchpad.net/bugs/73992 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
