package util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1701004 reported by Norbert
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Bug Description

Got this bug on xenial during installing of upgrades

$ sudo apt-get upgrade -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 libblkid1 libfdisk1 libmount1 libnautilus-extension-dev
  libnautilus-extension1a libsmartcols1 libuuid1 libuuid1:i386 mount nautilus
  nautilus-data uuid-dev uuid-runtime
14 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1 272 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3) ...
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)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-79.100-generic 4.4.67
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 28 18:00:45 2017
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-05 (2396 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.20
SourcePackage: util-linux
Title: package util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2017-06-24 (3 days ago)

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
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