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["C. Jeffery Small" <jeff@xxxxxxxx>]

Martin:

I did a lot of additional investigating into the link issue and I
believe I have discovered the problem which was on my end.  For many
years I have have has a bunch of aliases for /bin/ls defined.  For
example:

alias l="/bin/ls -al"
alias lx="/bin/ls -FC"
alias lt="/bin/ls -AFCt"

As aliases, these have never caused any problem.  However, while moving
to this new system, these aliases were converted into a shell script
with a bunch of links.  Unfortunately, one of the links was created as
ls rather than lx and this caused calls to ls to append the "type"
characters -- in the case of sympolic links, an '@' character.

Looking back at the original messages from above:

+ invoke-rc.d udev restart
invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev@
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev@

I see that the '@' is listed as part of the name.  I missed this
originally because I am so used to seeing that designator in my
listings, but I am pretty sure that the script was taking this as part
of the actual filename and could locate no links by those names.

This failure of invoke-rc.d probably kept the postinst script from
running.  So that solves one problem.

Since manually running the postinst script worked, it probably would
have run successfully had the ls error not occurred.  The udef package
is therefore, probably alright as is.

Sorry to have been the source of the problem and wasted your time on
this, but your input was very helpful in getting it resolved.  I've had
some issues with other package installations which I do not think were
caused by the same ls error, as that new script was only active for a
few days.  I will monitor future updates and see if any pattern emerges,
but for now all is well.

Thanks for all of your help.
--
Jeff Small

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406735

Title:
  package udev 208-8ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 102

Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  A few weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 10.10 server with the addition of
  the xubuntu-desktop packages.  Everything started out alright until i
  tried to install sendmail in place of postfix.  That installaton
  failed, reporting a similar error:

  "subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 102"

  From there, things went from bad to worse.  I was now unable to finish
  the install of sendmail nor could I remove it fully and reinstall
  postfix.  Spamassassin seemed to be one critical package that hept
  reporting errors.  As I tried to install or remove packages using
  synaptic, the system most of the time refused to act due to dascading
  errors and partially removed packages that could not be removed, even
  by force.

  Today I threw up my hands and did a complete fresh install of the
  system.  Everything went well for the basic packages until I ran
  software updater.  A few packages were scheduled to be updated,
  including udev and it has now faild in the exact same manner.

  Could someone look at this and provide a quick reply as to what can be
  done to rectify this situation.  I am afraid to install or remove any
  other software for fear of corrupting the system further and I
  currently do not have a usable system.

  Let me know if additional information is required.  Thanks.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: udev 208-8ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CustomUdevRuleFiles: .70-persistent-net.rules
  Date: Wed Dec 31 01:40:11 2014
  DuplicateSignature: package:udev:208-8ubuntu8.1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 102
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 102
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-31 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.2)
  MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Z9PE-D8 WS
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-28-generic root=UUID=d7121d57-8cf9-42a5-b7c3-75f414ce3e09 ro nomdmonddf nomdmonisw
  SourcePackage: systemd
  Title: package udev 208-8ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 102
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/06/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 5503
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: Z9PE-D8 WS
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0x
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.type: 17
  dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr5503:bd05/06/2014:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnZ9PE-D8WS:pvr1.0x:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnZ9PE-D8WS:rvr1.0x:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct17:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
  dmi.product.name: Z9PE-D8 WS
  dmi.product.version: 1.0x
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

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