Trouble with udev and rsyslog after upgrade

[TomB19]

Ubuntu 12.04

udev went south first and then, while upgrading some other stuff to try to fix udev, rsyslog has also gone south.

Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.sbin.rsyslogd
start: Job is already running: rsyslog
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up udev (175-0ubuntu9.3) ...
start: Job is already running: udev
invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 rsyslog
 udev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Does this mean I have to tweak apparmor in order to upgrade udev?


This is from dpkg.log, showing the status of rsyslog. rsyslog also has some apparmor controls so this could be a similar problem.

2013-03-25 21:18:46 upgrade rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8 5.8.6-1ubuntu8.1
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status half-configured rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status unpacked rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status half-installed rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status triggers-pending ureadahead 0.100.0-12
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status half-installed rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status triggers-pending ureadahead 0.100.0-12
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status triggers-pending man-db 2.6.1-2ubuntu1
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status half-installed rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status half-installed rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status unpacked rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8.1
2013-03-25 21:18:46 status unpacked rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu8.1

Any hint as to which direction to look would be appreciated. I mostly opened this thread because I could not find anything relevant when searching for these issues. If I can manage to sort this out, I hope it will be of help to someone else.

[TomB19]

I did a '/etc/init.d/apparmor teardown' and then remove/install of rsyslog. It was not effective. I'm not sure if this rules out apparmor now, or not, but I suspect it does.

[TomB19]

I tried "apt-get upgrade -f", "dpkg --configure -a", and a few other things.

From there, I gave up and installed 12.10 yesterday. After all, it's been a few months since I've been forced to reinstall. Once installed, I did an update/upgrade and now cups is hooped.

Processing triggers for cups ...
start: Job is already running: cups
invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cups (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 cups
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I can live without cups. I'll just boot into Windows 7 to do any printing I might need. In the mean time, I will refrain from updating anything at all so I can limp this along for another few months before the next forced re-install install. I'm glad Windows is stable.

[TomB19]

One more post on this....

I was unable to install anything, because of the cups error. In the past, I've been able to live with the udev/rsyslog error but I had all the software I needed, already installed by the time those errors showed up. This time, I still had software that needed installing.

I've done one more re-install and went back to ubuntu 12.04. So far, it is still working.

I've been told it's my hardware countless times. It isn't. This system works fine with Windows 7 but, far more telling of where it's at is the fact that my other machines go sour at about the same time.

The kiss of death is clearly KDE. I used KDE for years and loved it, still do, but I have yet to find a distribution that will remain stable with KDE installed. For what it's worth, I've found ubuntu with kde-standard far more stable than kubuntu. Neither is good enough, though. Ubuntu, without KDE, seems to be pretty stable. Adding KDE into the mix has always been a system killer for me.