package accountsservice 0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus nouveau script pre-removal a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

[piotr58]

on a Guest ubuntu VM, during an upgrade from 15.04 to 15.10 with "do-realese-upgrade" command.

My configuration :
- iMac 27" Late 2012 - 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 - 32 Gb RAM
- Mac OS X 10.11.2 "El Capitan"
- VMware Fusion 8.1.0 (3272237)
- VM Ubuntu with 3072 Mo RAM - 1 core

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: accountsservice 0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-43.49-generic 3.19.8-ckt10
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 6 11:14:10 2016
DuplicateSignature: package:accountsservice:0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1:le sous-processus nouveau script pre-removal a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus nouveau script pre-removal a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-27 (1073 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.0.10.2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: accountsservice
Title: package accountsservice 0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus nouveau script pre-removal a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-06 (0 days ago)

[piotr58 (plm-ubuntu)]

The only way I found is to upgrade manualy from 15.04 to 15.10 with "apt-get" command from a backup:
- update and upgrade vivid ("apt-get update && apt-get upgrade")
- test my configuration with "dpkg --audit"
- comment all external repositories on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
- change all "vivid" to "wily" references in /etc/apt/sources.list file
- do an "apt-get update" and an "apt-get upgrade"
- reboot
- do an "apt-get dist-upgrade"
- reboot
- clean configuration with a "apt-get autoremove"
- reboot
- wash configuration with a "orphaner" (deborphan package)
- purge configuration with "aptitude purge ~c"
- reboot
- re-activate externals reposities on /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with "add-apt-repository" for PPA one on manualy ti the other
- re-install VMware Tools from ISO (not from reprository)

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