package initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[mahmoh]

Error appeared during update.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-13.52-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-13-generic x86_64
AptOrdering:
 firmware-b43-installer: Purge
 b43-fwcutter: Purge
 initscripts: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 8 10:45:42 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: sysvinit
Title: package initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (253 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The DpkgTerminalLog indicates the following:

 Setting up initscripts (2.87dsf-4ubuntu23.1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ondemand: file does not exist

Do you know what happened to the file /etc/init.d/ondemand?

[mahmoh (mahmoh)]

Brian,

I do not know what happened to /etc/init.d/ondemand - it definitely doesn't exist on that system and I did not manually remove it. It doesn't appear that I have disk problems so is there any other way that file could have disappeared? Where do we go from here?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The full contents of your apt terminal log may provide some insight into what happend. It can be found at /var/log/apt/term.log. Could you please addi to the report?

[mahmoh (mahmoh)]

This is all I have, appears to have disappeared N-1 updates ago, there are four logs to look at but no indication as to what happened.

If there's anything else I can do please let me know but if this is a one-off then lets kill it, I'm sure there are more important ghosts to chase down.

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