removal of dcbd fails due to "update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!"

[Karl-Philipp Richter]

`dpkg` removal routine of `dcbd` (triggered by `sudo apt-get install -f`) fails due to `update-rc.d: error: no runlevel symlinks to modify, aborting!`.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: dcbd 0.9.19-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 4.4.3-040403-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 4 23:41:51 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (869 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: dcbd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-04 (0 days ago)
upstart.dcbd.override: manual

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

This seems fixed as of today.

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

No, only updates are possible, not installations and removals.

[Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722)]

Workaround: edit `/etc/init.d/dcbd` and remove `network` from the `# Required-Start:` header. Then run `sudo update-rc.d dcbd defaults` and `sudo apt-get install -f` to remove `dcbd`.

The problem is that there's no `initd` service `network`.

[Braiam Peguero (braiampe)]

The only problem is that network should be $network, which has not been fixed on upstream (Intel) latest version https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/DCB%20Tools/0.9.24/.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.