Package: dbus Version: 1.10.22-0+deb9u1 Followup-For: Bug #881342 Dear Maintainer,
apt then dies miserably leaving an usuable system - when you do: sudo dpkg --configure -a Basically since dbus is unconfigured and exited uncleanly - you then have to kill invoke-rc.d hoping dbus.postinst will run root 2939 0.0 0.0 4288 1564 ? S 19:55 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbus.postinst configure root 2974 0.0 0.0 4288 1524 ? S 19:55 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d dbus start root 2991 0.0 0.1 44640 2152 ? S 19:55 0:00 systemctl start dbus.service root 2992 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:55 0:00 [systemd-tty-ask] <defunct> then when you do dpkg --configure every package relying on dbus will fail and you get: baloo-kf5 kactivitymanagerd libkf5plasmaquick5:amd64 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols:amd64 plasma-framework libkf5baloowidgets5:amd64 kpackagelauncherqml libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5quickaddons5:amd64 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons:amd64 Processing was halted because there were too many errors. hooray :|