I also encountered this on a xenial machine where the upgrade somehow was broken, and 'apt install' would give the following errors:
Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.2) ... insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: util-linux E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The solution for us was to run 'dpkg-reconfigure initscripts' and 'apt install' to configure the large amount of unconfigured remaining packages. Not sure why it happened, but i am guessing something was upgraded and configured in the wrong order. It works fine again after our solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to sysvinit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1456670 Title: debootstrap failure: insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in sysvinit source package in Wily: Fix Released Bug description: Since today, debootstrap'ing wily is broken: W: Failure while configuring required packages. W: See /tmp/wily/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package util-linux is at fault) Setting up util-linux (2.26.2-3ubuntu1) ... update-alternatives: using /bin/more to provide /usr/bin/pager (pager) in auto mode insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock insserv: exiting now! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/1456670/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
