package bluez (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Bluez upgrade from Natty to Oneiric fails:

Setting up bluez (4.96-0ubuntu3) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K01acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Service dbus has to be enabled to start service bluetooth
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing bluez (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: bluez (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 17 14:32:00 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
SourcePackage: bluez
Title: package bluez (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2009-09-14 (733 days ago)

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Failure to to install bluez in turns prevent installation of gnome-shell because of dependencies.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

As discussed on IRC, all Ubuntu systems are supposed to have a /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering flag file telling update-rc.d (and /etc/init.d/rc) not to use insserv/startpar, which will fail terribly on Ubuntu. If this error has only just started happening for you, it seems like something has removed this file from your system.

The code is all still in place in /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysv-rc.{pre,post}inst to ensure the file is created for users on upgrade/installation.

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.