dpkg errors when doing upgrade on raspian, how to fix?

crobar · 01-14-2019, 04:18 AM

I recently attempted an update and upgrade on my raspberry pi 3 but got the following errors from dpkg:

Code:

    Setting up console-setup-linux (1.188) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package console-setup-linux (--configure):
     installed console-setup-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-setup:
     console-setup depends on console-setup-linux | console-setup-freebsd | hurd; however:
      Package console-setup-linux is not configured yet.
      Package console-setup-freebsd is not installed.
      Package hurd is not installed.
    
    dpkg: error processing package console-setup (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up dbus (1.12.12-1) ...
    A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon.
    Please reboot the system when convenient.
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package dbus (--configure):
     installed dbus package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up alsa-utils (1.1.7-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package alsa-utils (--configure):
     installed alsa-utils package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bluez:
     bluez depends on dbus; however:
      Package dbus is not configured yet.
    
    dpkg: error processing package bluez (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up ntp (1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-3) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package ntp (--configure):
     installed ntp package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up policycoreutils (2.8-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package policycoreutils (--configure):
     installed policycoreutils package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up rsync (3.1.3-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package rsync (--configure):
     installed rsync package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of selinux-policy-default:
     selinux-policy-default depends on policycoreutils (>= 2.7); however:
      Package policycoreutils is not configured yet.
    
    dpkg: error processing package selinux-policy-default (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up sudo (1.8.26-2) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package sudo (--configure):
     installed sudo package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     console-setup-linux
     console-setup
     dbus
     alsa-utils
     bluez
     ntp
     policycoreutils
     rsync
     selinux-policy-default
     sudo
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This happened when I left update running on a screen session and forgot about it for some time, then came back and it was showing a changelog (or something like this) which I scrolled through and quit (I presume this is unrelated though)).

Here's what was in my sources.list:

Code:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
#deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

and in files in sources.list.d

Code:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# added to allow certbot installation (see
# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2673
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi
deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

I tried commenting out

Code:

deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi

from /etc/apt/sources.list and also commenting out

Code:

deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

So I now have the following:

Code:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
#deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# added to allow certbot installation (see
# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2673
#deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi
#deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

I then ran

Code:

apt update

and

Code:

apt upgrade

. This produced the following error:

Code:

Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 46385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_215-17+deb8u8_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libudev1:armhf (215-17+deb8u8) over (215-17+deb8u7) ...
Setting up libudev1:armhf (215-17+deb8u8) ...
(Reading database ... 46385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../udev_215-17+deb8u8_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking udev (215-17+deb8u8) over (215-17+deb8u7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-1) ...
Setting up udev (215-17+deb8u8) ...
addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
 installed udev package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So now only one package appears to have an error. I thought perhaps I could just reinstall this package, so I tried the following:

Code:

sudo apt install --reinstall udev

but got the following output:

Code:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install --reinstall udev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  checkpolicy g++-4.9 imagemagick-common libapache2-mod-php5 libapol4 libargon2-0 libasprintf0c2 libauparse0 libbabeltrace1 libbind9-90 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libclass-method-modifiers-perl libcpan-changes-perl
  libcryptsetup12 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdns100 libevent-2.1-6 libfastjson4 libfile-slurp-perl libicu57 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libisl10 libjim0.75 libjs-excanvas liblognorm5 liblua5.1-0 liblwres90 liblz4-1 libmagickcore-6.q16-5
  libmagickwand-6.q16-5 libmariadbclient18 libmpfr4 libonig2 libperl4-corelibs-perl libprocps7 libpython3.4-minimal libpython3.4-stdlib libqdbm14 libqpol1 librole-tiny-perl libssl1.0.2 libstdc++-4.9-dev libtimedate-perl libtry-tiny-perl
  libvpx1 libxapian30 linux-base lsof php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-readline python-audit python-ipy python-pyasn1 python-selinux python-semanage python-sepolgen python-sepolicy python-setools python3-pyinotify python3.4
  python3.4-minimal samba-common selinux-policy-default setools sgml-base tcpd xml-core
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
11 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for udev:armhf

Some googling revealed this link where they have the same error, i.e.

Code:

addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.

and fix it by removing this group by commenting it out in /etc/group, then running addgroup --system input. I've no idea if this is a good thing to do.

Incidentally if I do cat /etc/os-release I get something unexpected, I expected to see jessie?

Code:

    
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux buster/sid"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs""

Can anyone please tell me if it is possible to fix this remaining udev error (or whatever the underlying cause is)? I've not got a very deep understanding of the packaging system.

Thanks!

Brains · 01-17-2019, 06:35 AM

Quote:

console-setup-linux
console-setup
udev
raspi-config
dbus
alsa-utils
bluez
ntp
policycoreutils
rsync
selinux-policy-default
sudo

You will likely find a file for most of these package names quoted above in /etc/init.d. I'm guessing the one highlighted in blue is the culprit. It also depends on how long you had "testing" sources enabled, there may be irreversible damage. Below is the header of my Debian "Testing" console-setup.sh (script).

Code:

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          console-setup.sh
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:      console-screen kbd
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# X-Interactive:     true
# Short-Description: Set console font and keymap
### END INIT INFO

Brains · 01-17-2019, 06:44 AM

Quote:

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux buster/sid

This is "Testing", maybe Jessie sources is the problem, I don't know, but you should know which it is supposed to be.

crobar · 01-17-2019, 07:24 AM

I ended up just restoring from backup. I think I put in that testing repo so I could install letsencrypt, but I'm not sure. Thanks for the help though.