Update/Solution: After submitting this bug report in the middle of a "do-release-upgrade" the upgrade process continued. I then removed the /var/lock directory, ran apt-get install -f and the initscripts post install script completed without errors. After this i proceeded to run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, which resulted in upgrading more packages, but ultimately failing with:
Setting up rsyslog (5.8.6-1ubuntu8) ... runlevel:/var/run/utmp: No such file or directory [... lots of more errors due to dependencies ...] I created /var/run/utmp, chmodded it to 664, changed group to utmp and then the error became: "Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused" Seems like upstart's init requires to be PID 1 and I was still using the rescue busybox shell (which therefore had PID 1) I rebooted but still ahci was missing because the new kernel (3.2.0-24-virtual) hasn't been installed yet. So I booted the rescue CD once again, ran apt-get install linux-virtual, it updated the kernel and the initial ramdisk and failed again with the previous errors. But then I was able to boot the new kernel and ahci.ko and the root disk were found. PID 1 was init and upstart worked again, apt-get install -f installed the remaining packages and completed successfully. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/998390 Title: package initscripts 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: 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/998390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
