[Bug 1701004] Re: package util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Norbert]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1456670 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1456670

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1456670
   insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock

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Title:
  package util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 failed to install/upgrade:
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Got this bug on xenial during installing of upgrades

  $ sudo apt-get upgrade -f
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 libblkid1 libfdisk1 libmount1 libnautilus-extension-dev
    libnautilus-extension1a libsmartcols1 libuuid1 libuuid1:i386 mount nautilus
    nautilus-data uuid-dev uuid-runtime
  14 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/1 272 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3) ...
  insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock
  insserv: exiting now!
  update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
  dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   util-linux
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-79.100-generic 4.4.67
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jun 28 18:00:45 2017
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-12-05 (2396 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
   apt  1.2.20
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  Title: package util-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2017-06-24 (3 days ago)

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