package udev 204-5ubuntu20.20 failed to install/upgrade: pre-dependency problem - not installing udev

[Nico van der Horn]

Upgrading Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS using do-release-upgrade.
Normal update/upgrade without problems/stable within release 12, including reboot.

During the upgrade I noticed "xenial" in the path-names, assuming the target would be 16.04 LTS.

But after 15min I noticed the following:

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Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/lvm2_2.02.133-1ubuntu10_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_229-4ubuntu12_amd64.deb
Error in function:

SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 416, in add_to_existing
    self.write(f)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 369, in write
    block = f.read(1048576)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 319, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

Original exception was:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Given the URL in the text, I landed here.

At the next choice, I selected to continue, effectively ignoring more problems with udev ?

I tried to recover by "apt-get -f install", later "apt full-upgrade" and it looked ok.
Unfortunately after reboot the server responded only to ping, as far as I could see nothing else.

I am working remotely with the server of my client, they start working at 08:00 CET.

Going for a short sleep now, as I'm afraid having to travel to the client and continue on-site.

If you can provide me with hits, I would apreciate that a lot.

Thanks in advance,

Nico

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: udev 204-5ubuntu20.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 13 20:57:14 2016
DuplicateSignature: package:udev:204-5ubuntu20.20:pre-dependency problem - not installing udev
ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing udev
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-01-16 (1793 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 051d:0003 American Power Conversion UPS
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: FUJITSU PRIMERGY TX100 S3
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-58-generic root=/dev/mapper/storage-root ro
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.15
SourcePackage: systemd
Title: package udev 204-5ubuntu20.20 failed to install/upgrade: pre-dependency problem - not installing udev
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-12-13 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU // American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V4.6.4.1 R1.6.0.0 for D3009-A1x
dmi.board.name: D3009-A1
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.board.version: S26361-D3009-A1
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU
dmi.chassis.version: TX100S3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSU//AmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV4.6.4.1R1.6.0.0forD3009-A1x:bd12/01/2011:svnFUJITSU:pnPRIMERGYTX100S3:pvr:rvnFUJITSU:rnD3009-A1:rvrS26361-D3009-A1:cvnFUJITSU:ct6:cvrTX100S3:
dmi.product.name: PRIMERGY TX100 S3
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU

[Nico van der Horn (0i0o)]

Today I went on-site and concluded that the boot hung on a problem with cryptswap1.
At this machine we do not need swap-encryption, so I changed in a standard setup.
This solved the problem of not completing the boot-sequence.
In addition I had to fix a few minor problems, like kernel version did not changed.
Case closed, thanks for your time.