udev not updating

Bug #1993770 reported by Chris McGovern
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Bug Description

Unable to update to udev_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb,this is blocking all other installs/updates including security updates.

Specific error is:
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_am
d64.deb (--unpack):
 fgets gave an empty string from '/var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.triggers'

root@triton:~# apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  indicator-common
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  systemd udev
Suggested packages:
  systemd-container libtss2-rc0
The following packages will be upgraded:
  systemd udev
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/6,137 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 561848 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../systemd_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/systemd_249.11-0ubuntu3.6
_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 fgets gave an empty string from '/var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.triggers'
dpkg: considering deconfiguration of systemd, which would be broken by installat
ion of udev ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure systemd (broken by udev)
Preparing to unpack .../udev_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring systemd (249.11-0ubuntu3.4), to allow installation of udev (249.1
1-0ubuntu3.6) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_am
d64.deb (--unpack):
 fgets gave an empty string from '/var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.triggers'
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/systemd_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_249.11-0ubuntu3.6_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Chris McGovern (cjmcgovern) wrote :

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

description: updated
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