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[Jesse Hughes <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

New upgrade of xenial, installing mythtv-backend fails with the
following:

jesse@nietzsche:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libslang2:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  mythtv-backend
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mythtv-backend
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2337 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/1,243 kB of archives.
After this operation, 179 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 797839 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb ...
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any help greatly appreciated.

** Affects: mythtv (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1529710

Title:
  Cannot install mythtv-backend on Xenial

Status in mythtv package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  New upgrade of xenial, installing mythtv-backend fails with the
  following:

  jesse@nietzsche:/var/lib/dpkg$ sudo apt-get install -f
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
    libslang2:i386
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
  The following additional packages will be installed:
    mythtv-backend
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    mythtv-backend
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2337 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/1,243 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 179 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
  (Reading database ... 797839 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb ...
  initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
  invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
  dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
  dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
  initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
  invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 100
  initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
  invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend not found.
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/mythtv-backend_2%3a0.27.1+fixes.20140624.aa822f5-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  Any help greatly appreciated.

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