After I made a system upgrade (apt-get upgrade) on a Debian box, I get an error every time I try to use apt-get. Example:
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-41+deb7u1) ...
insserv: Service killprocs has to be enabled to start service single
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have tried to find a solution, but can't find anything that looks like this. First of all I have this packet which is "not fully installed or removed". But I can't find the command to locate it.
But it lists about 20 packets, so there must be a better way to find this packet.
To fix the packet system I have tried normal procedures, like:
apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove
apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure -a
The clean command is good, but the install command will fail with as shown above.
In a desperate try, I tried to reinstall insserv (not sure it's the packet which is broken), but it fails the same way:
# apt-get install --reinstall insserv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 63.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main insserv armel 1.14.0-5 [63.8 kB]
Fetched 63.8 kB in 0s (85.5 kB/s)
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-41+deb7u1) ...
insserv: Service killprocs has to be enabled to start service single
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Hope some of you can help me fix the issue.
Edit Got a bit further:
dpkg --audit
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
initscripts scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
The following packages are missing the list control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
insserv boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script dependenc
ssmtp extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail
The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the
database, they need to be reinstalled:
insserv boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script dependenc
ssmtp extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail
binutils GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities
But I'm still not able to fix anything:
# dpkg-reconfigure initscripts
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: initscripts is broken or not fully installed
and:
# apt-get install --reinstall initscripts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for initscripts:armel
