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On upgrading a service this service has to be restarted to pick up the fixes. Rather rarely a real issue occurs that the newer version does e.g. fail with the formerly working configuration. But most of the time what happens is, that a service was installed, but stays unconfigured or experimented with but left in a broken state. Now on any update of the related packages that service has to be restarted, but since its config is incomplete/faulty it fails to restart. Therefore the update of that package has to consider itself incomplete. Depending on your particular case there are two solutions: - either remove the offending package if you don't want to continue using it. - Or if you do want to keep it please fix the configuration so that re-starting the service will work. Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete. If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1703100 Title: package ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1 Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Trying to install the updates along with audacity through Synaptic, it had problems and didn't install. I didn't copy the error message but it was something related to: util- linux And I think the error message was something related to that "it can't be true!" and it included a message like this: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thereafter I couldn't install nor uninstall anything. In http://www.ubuntu-es.org/node/157198#.WWCyvydLfrc they advised to go to /var/lib/dpkg/info as root, then to remove all files including util-linux on its names. Then, I could uninstall util-linux and everything seems Ok now. But, I just did a # apt-get -f install, and it returns that: Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho Los paquetes indicados a continuación se instalaron de forma automática y ya no son necesarios. linux-headers-4.4.0-78 linux-headers-4.4.0-78-generic linux-image-4.4.0-78-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-78-generic linux-signed-image-4.4.0-78-generic Utilice «sudo apt autoremove» para eliminarlos. 0 actualizados, 0 nuevos se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 43 no actualizados. 1 no instalados del todo o eliminados. Se utilizarán 0 B de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación. Configurando ntp (1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5) ... insserv: warning: script 'K01smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: Starting smfpd depends on grub-common and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on grub-common and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on grub-common and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: Starting smfpd depends on grub-common and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: There is a loop between service smfpd and grub-common if started insserv: loop involving service grub-common at depth 7 insserv: loop involving service smfpd at depth 1 insserv: Starting smfpd depends on grub-common and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: exiting now without changing boot order! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error al procesar el paquete ntp (--configure): el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1 Se encontraron errores al procesar: ntp E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Perhaps, Synaptic tried to install at its own some updates that it were retained by Ubuntu, But I don't know. I am fulfilling this bug because Ubuntu so requested me to do on the next time I have started the OS. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-79.100-generic 4.4.67 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Jul 8 11:05:11 2017 ErrorMessage: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-23 (45 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-79-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=090c6807-97c0-4b04-b1b5-1080d8ae1ddf ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2 apt 1.2.20 SourcePackage: ntp Title: package ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.5 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1703100/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
