Ubuntu
xfonts-core package

trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts'

Bug #22401 reported by Robert Williams on 2005-09-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #22340: conflict between x-common and xfonts-base. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfonts-core (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Daniel Stone

Bug Description

Immediately after a fresh install of breezy on i386 platform I clicked to
install all available updates. Soon it threw an error and killed the update.
The full error message on termination is:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/x-common_1.08_all.deb: trying to overwrite
`/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package

I hadn't loaded a single file of my own, changed any preferences, etc. on the
system before taking this action.

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Andrew (zendrew-mac) wrote on 2005-09-24:

I had the exact same problem; very soon afterwards, I begam to experience problems with screen "garbage" in the form of
vertical, angled lines being drawn at random. Launching any app (or anything, it seems, that spawns a new process) causes a
slowness so extreme that it seems at first like a freeze. The behavior persists through reboots. Using an older Micron
Transport P3 w/ 128 MB RAM.

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote on 2005-09-24:

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22340.