I dragged my feet on upgrading an old computer from 12.04(?), so yesterday finally went to 14.04 successfully then today tried to go to 16.04.
The update manager (gui) failed 3/4 of the way through and said there were too many errors encountered. I did some searching here and and found various combinations of these commands from this discussion for failed upgrades and tried to perform them. The results are as follows---mostly dependency errors which makes sense as the upgrade quit mid-way. I didn't include the output from sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, sudo dpkg --configure -a, or sudo apt-get install -f as it resembles autoremove and I am character limited.
Is there any way to recover from this? Thank you!
Details:
sudo apt-get update gives...
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
sudo apt-get clean gives no output
apt-get autoremove gives this mess:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
657 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up cron (3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match cron Default-Stop values (none)
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package cron (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2) ...
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: warning: script 'virtuoso-nepomuk' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of procps:
procps depends on initscripts; however:
Package initscripts is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package procps (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udev:
udev depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mountall:
mountall depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package mountall (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of upstart:
upstart depends on initscripts; however:
Package initscripts is not configured yet.
upstart depends on mountall; however:
Package mountall is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package upstart (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools-core:
initramfs-tools-core depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools:
initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-core (= 0.122ubuntu8.11); however:
Package initramfs-tools-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of brltty:
brltty depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.40ubuntu30); however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package brltty (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-drivers-common:
ubuntu-drivers-common depends on udev (>= 204-0ubuntu4~); however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-drivers-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up whoopsie (0.2.52.5) ...
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package whoopsie (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of keyboard-configuration:
keyboard-configuration depends on initscripts; however:
Package initscripts is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-setup:
console-setup depends on keyboard-configuration (= 1.108ubuntu15.3); however:
Package keyboard-configuration is not configured yet.
console-setup depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.85eubuntu12) | linux-initramfs-tool; however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
Package linux-initramfs-tool is not installed.
Package initramfs-tools which provides linux-initramfs-tool is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package console-setup (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
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dpkg: error processing package console-setup-linux (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up rsyslog (8.16.0-1ubuntu3) ...
The user `syslog' is already a member of `adm'.
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.sbin.rsyslogd
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package rsyslog (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-minimal:
ubuntu-minimal depends on console-setup; however:
Package console-setup is not configured yet.
ubuntu-minimal depends on initramfs-tools; however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
ubuntu-minimal depends on kbd; however:
Package kbd is not configured yet.
ubuntu-minimal depends on procps; however:
Package procps is not configured yet.
ubuntu-minimal depends on rsyslog; however:
Package rsyslog is not configured yet.
ubuntu-minimal depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-minimal (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up irqbalance (1.1.0-2ubuntu1) ...
insserv: warning: script 'binfmt-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `binfmt-support'
insserv: warning: script 'screen-cleanup' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Default-Start undefined, assuming empty start runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Default-Stop undefined, assuming empty stop runlevel(s) for script `screen-cleanup'
insserv: Script virtuoso-nepomuk is broken: missing end of LSB comment.
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package irqbalance (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-standard:
ubuntu-standard depends on cron; however:
Package cron is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-standard (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsolid4:
libsolid4 depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libsolid4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkio5:
libkio5 depends on libsolid4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libsolid4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkio5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkemoticons4:
libkemoticons4 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkemoticons4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkpimtextedit4:
libkpimtextedit4 depends on libkemoticons4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkemoticons4 is not configured yet.
libkpimtextedit4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkpimtextedit4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkpimutils4:
libkpimutils4 depends on libkemoticons4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkemoticons4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkpimutils4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkpimidentities4:
libkpimidentities4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkpimidentities4 depends on libkpimtextedit4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkpimtextedit4 is not configured yet.
libkpimidentities4 depends on libkpimutils4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkpimutils4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkpimidentities4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libakonadi-kde4:
libakonadi-kde4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libakonadi-kde4 depends on libsolid4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libsolid4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libakonadi-kde4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkabc4:
libkabc4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkabc4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkcal4:
libkcal4 depends on libkabc4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkabc4 is not configured yet.
libkcal4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkcal4 depends on libkpimutils4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkpimutils4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkcal4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libakonadi-kcal4:
libakonadi-kcal4 depends on libakonadi-kde4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libakonadi-kde4 is not configured yet.
libakonadi-kcal4 depends on libkcal4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkcal4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libakonadi-kcal4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libakonadi-contact4:
libakonadi-contact4 depends on libakonadi-kde4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libakonadi-kde4 is not configured yet.
libakonadi-contact4 depends on libkabc4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkabc4 is not configured yet.
libakonadi-contact4 depends on libkio5; however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libakonadi-contact4 depends on libkpimutils4 (= 4:4.14.10-1ubuntu2); however:
Package libkpimutils4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libakonadi-contact4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsa-base:
alsa-base depends on udev; however:
Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package alsa-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libknewstuff3-4:
libknewstuff3-4 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libknewstuff3-4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkparts4:
libkparts4 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkparts4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libktexteditor4:
libktexteditor4 depends on libkparts4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libktexteditor4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkatepartinterfaces4:
libkatepartinterfaces4 depends on libkio5 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkatepartinterfaces4 depends on libknewstuff3-4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libknewstuff3-4 is not configured yet.
libkatepartinterfaces4 depends on libkparts4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
libkatepartinterfaces4 depends on libktexteditor4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libktexteditor4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkatepartinterfaces4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of katepart:
katepart depends on libkatepartinterfaces4 (= 4:4.14.3-0ubuntu4); however:
Package libkatepartinterfaces4 is not configured yet.
katepart depends on libkio5 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
katepart depends on libkparts4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
katepart depends on libktexteditor4 (>= 4:4.14.2); however:
Package libktexteditor4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package katepart (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdoctools:
kdoctools depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package kdoctools (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkde3support4:
libkde3support4 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkde3support4 depends on libkparts4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkde3support4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkdewebkit5:
libkdewebkit5 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkdewebkit5 depends on libkparts4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkdewebkit5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkfile4:
libkfile4 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkfile4 depends on libsolid4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libsolid4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkfile4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkhtml5:
libkhtml5 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libkhtml5 depends on libkparts4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkparts4 is not configured yet.
libkhtml5 depends on libktexteditor4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libktexteditor4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libkhtml5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs5-plugins:No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
kdelibs5-plugins depends on katepart; however:
Package katepart is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on kdoctools (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package kdoctools is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkde3support4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkde3support4 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkdewebkit5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkdewebkit5 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkemoticons4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkemoticons4 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkfile4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkfile4 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkhtml5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkhtml5 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
kdelibs5-plugins depends
dpkg: error processing package kdelibs5-plugins (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libplasma3:No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
libplasma3 depends on libkdewebkit5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkdewebkit5 is not configured yet.
libplasma3 depends on libkio5 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
libplasma3 depends on libknewstuff3-4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libknewstuff3-4 is not configured yet.
libplasma3 depends on libsolid4 (= 4:4.14.16-0ubuntu3.2); however:
Package libsolid4 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libplasma3 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plasma-scriptengine-javascript:No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
plasma-scriptengine-javascript depends on libkio5 (>= 4:4.9.95~); however:
Package libkio5 is not configured yet.
plasma-scriptengine-javascript depends on libplasma3 (>= 4:4.9.95~); however:
Package libplasma3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package plasma-scriptengine-javascript (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: too many errors, stoppingNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
cron
initscripts
procps
udev
mountall
upstart
initramfs-tools-core
initramfs-tools
brltty
bluez
cups-browsed
cups-daemon
samba
winbind
libnss-winbind:i386
mysql-server-5.7
ubuntu-drivers-common
whoopsie
keyboard-configuration
console-setup
kbd
console-setup-linux
rsyslog
ubuntu-minimal
irqbalance
ubuntu-standard
libsolid4
libkio5
libkemoticons4
libkpimtextedit4
libkpimutils4
libkpimidentities4
libakonadi-kde4
libkabc4
libkcal4
libakonadi-kcal4
libakonadi-contact4
alsa-base
libknewstuff3-4
libkparts4
libktexteditor4
libkatepartinterfaces4
katepart
kdoctools
libkde3support4
libkdewebkit5
libkfile4
libkhtml5
kdelibs5-plugins
libplasma3
plasma-scriptengine-javascript
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
