Public bug reported:

New upgrade of xenial, installing mythtv-backend fails with the
following:

jesse@nietzsche:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libslang2:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  mythtv-backend
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mythtv-backend
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2337 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1,243 kB of archives.
After this operation, 179 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 797839 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack 
.../mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb ...
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket 
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket 
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
 (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket 
/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100
Errors were encountered while processing:
 
/var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help greatly appreciated.

** Affects: mythtv (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Cannot install mythtv-backend on Xenial

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