Hey how is everything. I also had the same problem when updating my system. Returned the error: Configuring ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.0 ~ 16.04.1) ... Traceback (most recent call last): ImportError: No module named 'uaclient' dpkg: error processing Ubuntu-Advantage-Tools (--configure) package: sub-process script post-installation installed returned error output status 1 Errors were found during processing: ubuntu-advantage-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I tried a sudo apt autoremove Then after removing unnecessary packages he returned the error: Configuring ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.0 ~ 16.04.1) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in ImportError: No module named 'uaclient' dpkg: error processing ubuntu-advantage-tools (--configure) package: sub-process script post-installation installed returned error output status 1 Errors were found during processing: Ubuntu-advantage-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Then I updated with: sudo apt update In which it has updated the system and asked to list packages to be updated with: apt List --upgradable I checked and updated with: sudo apt upgrade and returned me again the same error I tried then, thinking that it was a ua client key utter, I added to the repository to try to solve the problem with: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ua-client/stable Then I updated the packages again but the same mistake again was returned I then tried the command to try to clean, with: sudo apt --purge remove && sudo apt autoclean And again the same error was returned I then tried the command: sudo apt -f install And yet the same error was returned I tried the command: sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade and also the same error was also returned I then tried the command: sudo dpkg --configure - Also the same error returned I then tried to remove advantage-tools to reinstall later, but also returned the error a bit different but it's the same for purge. So I execute: sudo apt remove --purge ubuntu-advantage-tools And it was returned: The following package has been installed automatically and is no longer required: distro-info Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be REMOVED: ubuntu-advantage-tools* ubuntu-minimal* 0 updated packages, 0 new packages installed, 2 to be removed and 1 not updated. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 3,016 KB of disk space will be released. Do you want to continue? [Y / n] y (Reading database ... 336633 Currently installed files and directories.) Remove ubuntu-minimal (1,361.6) ... Remove ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.0 ~ 16.04.1) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 2, in ImportError: No module named 'uaclient' dpkg: error processing the ubuntu-advantage-tools package (--purge): sub-process script pre-removal installed returned error output status 1 Errors were found during processing: ubuntu-advantage-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) After that, I could no longer solve. In my system I can not update anything else. If you can help. NOTE: The results are in Portuguese but I put in English here to facilitate.