Error Messages during upgrade

[volkerbradley]

When I perform sudo apt-get upgrade, I see the following error message and don't know how to correct the errors:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libdrm2 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7,939 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 367043 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libdrm2:amd64 2.4.39-0ubuntu1 (using .../libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdrm2:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libdrm2:amd64
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Preparing to replace libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 9.0-0ubuntu1 (using .../libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Preparing to replace libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 9.0-0ubuntu1 (using .../libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz', which is different from other instances of package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm2_2.4.39-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgl1-mesa-dri_9.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I upgrade these three files and remove the error messages?
Thanks

[SlugSlug]

Can you post in CODE tages (the hash # button)

the output of


df -h

[volkerbradley]

Hi SlugSlug,
I'm sorry. I do't understand:
What are CODE tages?
Where is the hash # button?
What do I do with df -h?
Thanks

[SlugSlug]

When you hit reply you can then click on the # button & post your output in between the CODE tags so its easier to read

type

df -h

in Terminal this can be found in your menu

[volkerbradley]

Sorry that I cannot find the # button anywhere on this page. Sure wished I did. Don't mean to bug anyone.
df -h returns:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/laptop-root 139G 109G 23G 83% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 956K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 220K 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 28K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 228M 96M 120M 45% /boot

[SlugSlug]

ok try


sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get autoclean; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get autoremove

[harpal]

Clean your apt cache and then try again. This might help.

[volkerbradley]

ok try


sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get autoclean; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo apt-get autoremove


I gave all of the commands you suggested and then followed them with

sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
At that point I am still seeing the error message that I posted earlier.

[SlugSlug]

sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz.old && sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz.old && sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz.old

followed by


sudo apt-get upgrade


if (and only if!) this works


sudo rm /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/*.old

[volkerbradley]

Thank you very much for your continued willingness to help.
I gave the first command that you suggested. Here is the output:

volker@laptop:~$ sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libdrm2/changelog.Debian.gz.old && sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz.old && sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz.old
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/doc/libgl1-mesa-dri/changelog.Debian.gz': No such file or directory
Should I continue with the second and third commands you suggested?

[SlugSlug]

yep go ahead with others

my bad posted same thing twice

[volkerbradley]

Yes, that worked!! Thank you very much for helping me.
Here is the output now:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[SlugSlug]

no prob :popcorn: