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[George Nace <1806265@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect this bug may be related to an install of Oracle's Java package
for Ubuntu which I installed using Oracle's deb package. This didn't
cause problems for months until I suddenly got the error while running
regular packaged updates using the normal user interface and standard
Ubuntu tools. I can no longer use apt-get, synaptic or any other deb
package installer and I'm hesitant to try to fix things manually by
removing files. This latest occurrence was running "sudo apt-get install
-f"

Here is the output copied from my terminal session:
=========
gnace@gn-limbo:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for gnace: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  openjdk-8-jre-headless
Suggested packages:
  fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-wqy-microhei
  fonts-wqy-zenhei
The following packages will be upgraded:
  openjdk-8-jre-headless
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 425 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/27.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 35.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 531072 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 (8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/net.properties', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
gnace@gn-limbo:~$ 
==========

Is there some way to fix this using dpkg? The gui installers pop-ups all
say that my system has broken dependencies, and suggest using "sudo apt-
get install -f". Unfortunately I'm not fluent enough with dpkg to try
using that command without some guidance.

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Title:
  package openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 failed to
  install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared
  '/etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security', which is different from
  other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64

Status in openjdk-8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Package crash on automated install.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-42.45-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-42-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  AptOrdering:
   openjdk-8-jdk:amd64: Install
   openjdk-8-jdk-headless:amd64: Install
   openjdk-8-jre:amd64: Install
   openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64: Install
   NULL: ConfigurePending
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Nov 28 06:37:25 2018
  DuplicateSignature:
   package:openjdk-8-jre-headless:8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
   Unpacking openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 (8u191-b12-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
    trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64
  ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal, 3.6.7-1~18.04
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
   apt  1.6.6
  SourcePackage: openjdk-8
  Title: package openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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