14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS upgrade errors with cups/insserv

[Marius Gedminas]

Upgraded a ~~precise~~ trusty server to xenial with sudo do-release-upgrade. Got a bunch of errors while upgrading cups because insserv was deeply unhappy about init script dependencies (loops loops everywhere).

I'm hoping ubuntu-bug is smart enough to attach the relevant /var/log/dist-upgrade/ log files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-93.140-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-93-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Aug 17 09:24:33 2016
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-17 (0 days ago)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I'm currently rather stuck since any attempts to continue the interrupted upgrade process with 'apt dist-upgrade -f' fail at the very beginning, with

Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K02gdm' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S03powernowd.early' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S03xserver-xorg-input-wacom' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S99stop-readahead' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S10readahead-desktop' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S04readahead' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 util-linux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(dpkg --configure -a isn't making progress either)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Discovered a workaround:

   dpkg --purge usplash
   dpkg --purge readahead
   dpkg --configure initscripts
   dpkg --configure util-linux

getting rid of stale initscripts from usplash and readahead removed a couple of init script dependency loops, which led dpkg --configure util-linux proceed.

apt dist-upgrade -f is running now, we'll see how it goes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Yatin Makkad (yatin.makkd)]

I have the same issue please help me out. Thanks

[Yatin Makkad (yatin.makkd)]

I tried out many times to update with "apt dist-upgrade -f" and Getting same every time. Please provide some solution.

After this operation, 751 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.4) ...
insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 util-linux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Yatin Makkad (yatin.makkd)]

My issue is resolved on by following these steps.

Simply removed
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst

and run

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

Resolved

[Mohsen Ibrahim (mohsen47)]

I had the same issue and it was solved using

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst

and

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

Thanks for providing a solution.