vivid install error: overwrite '/boot/ipxe.efi from grub-ipxe

Bug #1418751 reported by Carl Karsten
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ipxe (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
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Bug Description

daily vivid netboot install

two key lines:

Unpacking grub-ipxe (1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1) ...
...
 trying to overwrite '/boot/ipxe.efi', which is also in package grub-ipxe 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1

juser@trist:~$ sudo apt-get install ipxe
[sudo] password for juser:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  grub-ipxe ipxe-qemu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub-ipxe ipxe ipxe-qemu
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,159 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,918 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main grub-ipxe all 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1 [651 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main ipxe-qemu all 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1 [589 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main ipxe all 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1 [919 kB]
Fetched 2,159 kB in 1s (1,094 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package grub-ipxe.
(Reading database ... 175889 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-ipxe_1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking grub-ipxe (1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package ipxe-qemu.
Preparing to unpack .../ipxe-qemu_1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking ipxe-qemu (1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package ipxe.
Preparing to unpack .../ipxe_1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Unpacking ipxe (1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ipxe_1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/boot/ipxe.efi', which is also in package grub-ipxe 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ipxe_1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Revision history for this message
Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Thanks for submitting this bug report.

Changed in ipxe (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ipxe - 1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu3

---------------
ipxe (1.0.0+git-20141004.86285d1-1ubuntu3) vivid; urgency=medium

  * ipxe.install: remove one more line which was supposed to be split out
    into grub-ipxe.install.
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:01:16 -0600

Changed in ipxe (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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