I tried to reinstall all of the perl packages, but, got this error:

Couldn't  configure liblocale-gettext-perl:i386, probably a dependency
cycle problem.

I have not done anything out of the order in installing and updating
packages, so, I do not know why this is happening.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:26 AM Greg Silverman <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> /usr/share/perl is not present on my machine. I never did anything special
> with the perl installation, in fact, I never directly use perl. I am doing
> a complete reinstall of perl to see if that fixes the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 11:50 PM Steve Langasek <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> The error in the log is:
>>
>> Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (you may need to install the strict
>> module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2
>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20
>> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20
>> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 6.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 6.
>> dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
>>
>> The strict.pm module is part of the perl-base package, which is an
>> Essential package.  With perl-base 5.20.2-6ubuntu0.2 in 15.10, this is
>> available at /usr/share/perl/5.20/strict.pm, which is part of the listed
>> path.
>>
>> This looks to me like a broken installation, rather than a bug in an
>> Ubuntu package.  What version of perl-base is installed at this system,
>> and is /usr/share/perl/5.20/strict.pm present?
>>
>> ** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
>>        Status: New => Incomplete
>>
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>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1615281
>>
>> Title:
>>   package initscripts 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
>>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>>   status 2
>>
>> Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
>>   Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>>   Simply upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04.
>>
>>   ProblemType: Package
>>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>>   Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2
>>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-27.32-generic 4.2.8-ckt1
>>   Uname: Linux 4.2.0-27-generic i686
>>   ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
>>   Architecture: i386
>>   Date: Sat Aug 20 12:56:57 2016
>>   DuplicateSignature: package:initscripts:2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2:subprocess
>> installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>>   ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
>> error exit status 2
>>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-05 (381 days ago)
>>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release i386 (20150422)
>>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>>    dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
>>    apt  1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
>>   SourcePackage: sysvinit
>>   Title: package initscripts 2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2 failed to
>> install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
>> error exit status 2
>>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-08-20 (0 days ago)
>>
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