On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:33:52PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:55:59AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > systemd > > libpam-systemd:i386 > > policykit-1 > > policykit-1-gnome > > plymouth > > mate-polkit:i386 > > lxpolkit > > modemmanager > > plymouth-label > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > root@joule:~#
> If this appears to be complete apart from the errors you have: it may be > worth rebooting and running dpkg -C to configure anything that is unpacked > but remains unconfigured. This would not be my advice. For two reasons: 1) If the underlying problem isn't fixed, there is no reason to expect that "dpkg -C" is going to fix things. It should just run the same post-inst scripts again, and produce the same errors again. 2) With systemd in a possibly messed-up state, rebooting is risky. I would focus on fixing the underlying issue, starting with looking at the things that it complained about. ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal
