Bionic upgrade failed with bash_4.4.18-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb error

[Leonid]

Hi,

In a fresh installed Linux Subsystem(Ubuntu Bionic) of Win 10, apt upgrade got this error in bash pre-installation script...
Could anybody please confirm and check the issue? Thanks!

Preparing to unpack .../bash_4.4.18-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
bash.preinst: cannot run dpkg-query: Invalid argument....................................................................................................................................................................................]
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.4.18-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new bash package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.4.18-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[lewis donofrio (lewis-donofrio)]

donofrio@Localhost:~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt-get autoremove -y && sudo apt-get autoclean -y && sudo sync && sudo sync
[sudo] password for donofrio:
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 241 kB in 9s (27.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: http: aptMethod::Configuration: could not load seccomp policy: Invalid argument
W: http: aptMethod::Configuration: could not load seccomp policy: Invalid argument
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apport apt apt-utils bind9-host btrfs-progs cryptsetup-bin curl dirmngr dnsutils dpkg fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console gnupg gnupg-agent isc-dhcp-client libapparmor-perl libapt-pkg5.0
  libbind9-160 libcurl3 libgnutls30 libidn2-0 libirs160 libisccc160 libisccfg160 liblwres160 liblxc1 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libperl5.26 libpsl5 libsystemd0 nplan perl perl-base
  python3-apport rsyslog strace systemd ubuntu-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apparmor at bash bash-completion bsdutils btrfs-tools byobu ca-certificates cloud-guest-utils cloud-init command-not-found command-not-found-data console-setup console-setup-linux cryptsetup
  debconf debconf-i18n dh-python distro-info-data dmeventd dmsetup dnsmasq-base e2fslibs e2fsprogs eatmydata ebtables ethtool fdisk file friendly-recovery gcc-7-base gcc-8-base geoip-database
  gettext-base gir1.2-glib-2.0 git git-man gnupg-l10n gpgv hdparm initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core iproute2 isc-dhcp-common iso-codes keyboard-configuration
  language-selector-common libapparmor1 libapt-inst2.0 libatm1 libblkid1 libc-bin libc6 libcom-err2 libcomerr2 libcurl3-gnutls libdb5.3 libdevmapper-event1.02.1 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdrm-common
  libdrm2 libeatmydata1 libelf1 libext2fs2 libfdisk1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgcrypt20 libgdbm5 libgirepository-1.0-1 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgraphite2-3 libharfbuzz0b libicu60 libidn11
  libkeyutils1 liblvm2app2.2 liblvm2cmd2.02 liblz4-1 libmagic-mgc libmagic1 libmount1 libmpdec2 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnghttp2-14 libnih1 libpam-modules libpam-modules-bin libpam-runtime
  libpam0g libplymouth4 libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpopt0 libprocps6 libpython3-stdlib libpython3.6 libpython3.6-minimal libpython3.6-stdlib libseccomp2
  libselinux1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1 libslang2 libsmartcols1 libss2 libssl1.0.0 libssl1.1 libstdc++6 libtinfo5 libudev1 libuuid1 libxcb1 locales lshw lvm2 lxcfs lxd lxd-client man-db
  mawk mdadm mlocate mount multiarch-support nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term netcat-openbsd open-iscsi open-vm-tools openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server openssl
  pastebinit patch perl-modules-5.26 plymouth plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text policykit-1 popularity-contest powermgmt-base procps public...

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

Could you please check your Windows Build number?
According to Microsoft and to my test it is fixed in latest builds, starting with 17046. I verified the fix on 17134.

You can get the build number even in Ubuntu's terminal :-) :

$ systeminfo.exe | grep '^OS Version'
OS Version: 10.0.17134 N/A Build 17134