Martin:

I did a lot of additional investigating into the link issue and I
believe I have discovered the problem which was on my end.  For many
years I have have has a bunch of aliases for /bin/ls defined.  For
example:

alias l="/bin/ls -al"
alias lx="/bin/ls -FC"
alias lt="/bin/ls -AFCt"

As aliases, these have never caused any problem.  However, while moving
to this new system, these aliases were converted into a shell script
with a bunch of links.  Unfortunately, one of the links was created as
ls rather than lx and this caused calls to ls to append the "type"
characters -- in the case of sympolic links, an '@' character.

Looking back at the original messages from above:

+ invoke-rc.d udev restart
invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev@
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev@

I see that the '@' is listed as part of the name.  I missed this
originally because I am so used to seeing that designator in my
listings, but I am pretty sure that the script was taking this as part
of the actual filename and could locate no links by those names.

This failure of invoke-rc.d probably kept the postinst script from
running.  So that solves one problem.

Since manually running the postinst script worked, it probably would
have run successfully had the ls error not occurred.  The udef package
is therefore, probably alright as is.

Sorry to have been the source of the problem and wasted your time on
this, but your input was very helpful in getting it resolved.  I've had
some issues with other package installations which I do not think were
caused by the same ls error, as that new script was only active for a
few days.  I will monitor future updates and see if any pattern emerges,
but for now all is well.

Thanks for all of your help.
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  package udev 208-8ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 102

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