A problem occured while installing a software

[marcandy]

I'm having trouble installing updates on my Ubuntu 16.04 Every time there is a software update and I try to do the install. It worked for a while then it says "operation failed" etc... I don't know what is the cause, I would like some help troubleshooting the issue. This the error in the terminal when I do: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade


tart: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:
git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:
Package runit is not configured yet.


dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up compiz-core (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Setting up libcompizconfig0:amd64 (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libdecoration0:amd64 (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up compiz-plugins-default:amd64 (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up compiz-gnome (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up compiz (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up python3-software-properties (0.96.20.4) ...
Setting up software-properties-common (0.96.20.4) ...
Setting up software-properties-gtk (0.96.20.4) ...
Setting up python-compizconfig:amd64 (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up compizconfig-settings-manager (1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160801.3-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
runit
git-daemon-run
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up runit (2.1.2-3ubuntu1) ...
start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
dpkg: error processing package runit (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:
git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:
Package runit is not configured yet.


dpkg: error processing package git-daemon-run (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
runit
git-daemon-run
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[T.J.]

Have you tried:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f (to finish installing packages)

or

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a (to fix broken configurations)


If you still have trouble after that, post back to me and I'll try to help you. It's possible if you are using a third party PPA, that a bad package has broken your install. It's also possible that the package manager was simply interrupted, and just needs to finish. Running those commands may tell us which it is.

[marcandy]

I think I fixed it. I'm able to do sudo apt-get update now. I used this to fix it: http://askubuntu.com/questions/765565/how-to-fix-processing-with-runit-and-git-daemon-run


sudo apt-get purge runit
sudo apt-get purge git-all
sudo apt-get purge git
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git

and this to remove crashes http://askubuntu.com/questions/365358/im-getting-a-lot-of-system-program-problem-detected-error-dialogs-is-there-a


sudo rm /var/crash/*

Thanks anyway.