Upgrade problem after system failure, help please...

[Peter Silva]

try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install -f

It might fix it self after a couple of tries.


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> System information Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>
> I lost my hard drive (somehow it got erased COMPLETELY). I replaced it
> with an older drive and did a restore from my backup.
>
> I was successful in getting my home directories recovered. The system
> reported that updates were needed, not surprising. ONWARD!
>
> When I attempted to do the following:
>
> sudo apt-get check && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I get an error message:
>
> ...
>
>  286 upgraded, 34 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
>
> ...
>
> Fetched 31.6 MB in 15s (2,021 kB/s)
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.2) ...
> insserv: script hwclock.sh: service hwclock already provided!
> 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)
>
> How do I recover???
>
> Cheers,
> Jay
>
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