package cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Yuan Yiyang]

during routine upgrade of packages, the following package upgrade failed.

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up cups-browsed (1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6) ...
start: Job is already running: cups-browsed
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up modemmanager (1.0.0-2ubuntu1.1) ...
start: Job is already running: modemmanager
invoke-rc.d: initscript modemmanager, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package modemmanager (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cups-browsed
 modemmanager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04

$ apt-cache policy cups-browsed
cups-browsed:
  Installed: 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6
  Candidate: 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.52-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt19
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-55-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:

Date: Thu Dec 10 09:43:14 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:cups-browsed:1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-04 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: No destinations added.
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS L322X
Papersize: a4
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-55-generic root=UUID=05dbbbc7-1c1e-4c2f-909a-936022c066a7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: cups-filters
Title: package cups-browsed 1.0.52-0ubuntu1.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/28/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A10
dmi.board.name: 0PJHXN
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd08/28/2013:svnDellInc.:pnXPSL322X:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PJHXN:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: XPS L322X
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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