Package: packagekit Version: 1.1.12-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch) to 10 (buster) yesterday. Since then problems with packagekit have affected my ability to use other software. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? 1) apt update 2) Tried to start apache2 * What was the outcome of this action? 1) error message as part of the apt output: Error message: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit -.mount is masked. 2) # service apache2 start Failed to start apache2.service: Unit -.mount is masked. # * What outcome did you expect instead? 1) I did not expect the error message. 2) I expected apache2 to start. Addenda: I found the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit. When I removed it, I did not get the apt error message. Searching on the apt error message, I found instructions to do the following: systemctl unmask packagekit.service systemctl start packagekit.service The second command produced this error message: "Failed to start packagekit.service: Unit -.mount is masked." -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages packagekit depends on: ii libappstream4 0.12.5-1 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.8.2 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.3-2 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.14.4-1 ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.12-5 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-25 ii libsqlite3-0 3.27.2-3 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 ii libsystemd0 241-5 ii policykit-1 0.105-25 Versions of packages packagekit recommends: ii packagekit-tools 1.1.12-5 Versions of packages packagekit suggests: pn appstream <none> -- no debconf information