Hi John, the report has a lot of red herrings (all the error device is in use), but IMHO in the log the error that you hit was.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66 That is a known and unfortunate issue, as it occurs every now and then and sometimes is fixed but seems to come back - often with hard to analyze (and thereby hard to identify and fix) root causes. It all seems like bug 1646739 to me, but since that was fixed in bug 1679435 it must be a new trigger for the same symptom. In any case it is in debconf, so I add a bug task - but I also set it to incomplete as we'd need more information why/how it was triggered for you. The only good side for now, usually it is a one off error that does work fine when retrying. ** Changed in: grub-legacy-ec2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Also affects: debconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to debconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817077 Title: package linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/x-grub-legacy-ec2 exited with return code 128 Status in debconf package in Ubuntu: New Status in grub-legacy-ec2 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I applied an system update and was presented with this error after the next login. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-45.48-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: Date: Thu Feb 14 00:00:24 2019 ErrorMessage: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/x-grub-legacy-ec2 exited with return code 128 IwConfig: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. Lspci: Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: MachineType: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine ProcFB: 0 hyperv_fb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-45-generic root=UUID=36f6b4c3-1f42-11e9-99c9-00155d195067 ro PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal, 3.6.7-1~18.04 PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1 RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1 apt 1.6.8 RfKill: SourcePackage: grub-legacy-ec2 Title: package linux-image-4.15.0-44-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: run-parts: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/x-grub-legacy-ec2 exited with return code 128 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 11/26/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Microsoft Corporation dmi.bios.version: Hyper-V UEFI Release v1.0 dmi.board.asset.tag: None dmi.board.name: Virtual Machine dmi.board.vendor: Microsoft Corporation dmi.board.version: Hyper-V UEFI Release v1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0298-0271-9062-6147-4258-1509-89 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Microsoft Corporation dmi.chassis.version: Hyper-V UEFI Release v1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnMicrosoftCorporation:bvrHyper-VUEFIReleasev1.0:bd11/26/2012:svnMicrosoftCorporation:pnVirtualMachine:pvrHyper-VUEFIReleasev1.0:rvnMicrosoftCorporation:rnVirtualMachine:rvrHyper-VUEFIReleasev1.0:cvnMicrosoftCorporation:ct3:cvrHyper-VUEFIReleasev1.0: dmi.product.family: Virtual Machine dmi.product.name: Virtual Machine dmi.product.version: Hyper-V UEFI Release v1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Microsoft Corporation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1817077/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp