So, this left me at an installed 24.04 OS but with those packages above
having issues. Running apt install showed the rest of the error
messages, which I repeat below:
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up polkitd (124-2ubuntu1.24.04.2) ...
Failed to check if group polkitd already exists: Connection refused
id: ‘polkitd’: no such user
chown: invalid group: ‘root:polkitd’
dpkg: error processing package polkitd (--configure):
installed polkitd package post-installation script subprocess returned error
exit status 1
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
pkexec:
pkexec depends on polkitd (= 124-2ubuntu1.24.04.2); however:
Package polkitd is not configured yet.
Fixing this required adding the polkitd group and user manually, as follows:
groupadd -r polkitd
useradd -r -g polkitd -d / -s /sbin/nologin -c "User for polkitd" polkit
ant then running
apt install polkitd
though google suggests running it as apt --reinstall install polkitd
Running
apt install pkexec packagekit modemmanager policykit-1 packagekit-tools
software-properties-common ubuntu-server
aftewards showed nothing needed to be done, and then an apt autoremove
cleaned up the unused packages that the do-release-upgrade would
presumably have removed.
I have no idea if this leaves my server stable. I can login and do
installs now though, and its not prod so Im going to forge ahead a bit.
But any assurance that nothing else needs to be cleaned up or installed
manually would be nice.
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package polkitd 124-2ubuntu1.24.04.2 failed to install/upgrade:
installed polkitd package post-installation script subprocess returned
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