This appears to be preventing me from fixing broken packages in Synaptic after failed 14.04 -> 16.04.3 upgrade. I still haven’t entirely figured that one out, the only clue being where it seemed to fail:
2017-12-20 13:43:58,269 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/apt/archives/ppp_2.4.7-1+2ubuntu1_amd64.deb': 'subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1'
This appears to be preventing me from fixing broken packages in Synaptic after failed 14.04 -> 16.04.3 upgrade. I still haven’t entirely figured that one out, the only clue being where it seemed to fail:
2017-12-20 13:43:58,269 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/ apt/archives/ ppp_2.4. 7-1+2ubuntu1_ amd64.deb' : 'subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1'