Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Robin Corps]

Encountered during a do-release-upgrade from 16.04.6 LTS to 18.04.2 LTS.

Processing triggers for resolvconf (1.79ubuntu10.18.04.3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ca-certificates
 ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
 update-manager-core
 update-notifier-common
 snapd
 ubuntu-core-launcher
 software-properties-common
 python3-httplib2
 python3-certifi
 python3-requests
 python3-requests-unixsocket
 python3-apport
 apport
 landscape-common
 ubuntu-server
 ssh-import-id
Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ca-certificates 20180409
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-145.171-generic 4.4.176
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-145-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 21 16:11:17 2019
ErrorMessage: installed ca-certificates package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 23
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-30 (840 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal, 3.6.7-1~18.04
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
 apt 1.6.10
SourcePackage: ca-certificates
Title: package ca-certificates 20180409 failed to install/upgrade: installed ca-certificates package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 23
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-05-21 (0 days ago)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Probably this represents an LVM2 or hardware error instead of something specific to certificates.

Thanks

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) reached end-of-standard-support on May 31, 2023.
Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]