Recently, I've started to get a whole bunch of errors during install. No matter, what I install:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/23373166/
Update:
OK, I've dug to this point. I ran:
sudo /usr/lib/insserv/insserv -f
And it gave me this:
insserv: warning: script 'showfsck' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service reniced and showfsck if stopped
insserv: loop involving service showfsck at depth 2
insserv: loop involving service reniced at depth 1
insserv: Stopping showfsck depends on reniced and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: can not remove(../rc0.d/K04avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/avahi-daemon, ../rc0.d/K03avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc1.d/K04avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/avahi-daemon, ../rc1.d/K03avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc2.d/S08plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/plymouth, ../rc2.d/S14plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc2.d/S08reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/reniced, ../rc2.d/S14reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc2.d/S08grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/grub-common, ../rc2.d/S14grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc2.d/S08ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/ondemand, ../rc2.d/S14ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc2.d/S08rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/rc.local, ../rc2.d/S14rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc3.d/S08plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/plymouth, ../rc3.d/S14plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc3.d/S08reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/reniced, ../rc3.d/S14reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc3.d/S08grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/grub-common, ../rc3.d/S14grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc3.d/S08ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/ondemand, ../rc3.d/S14ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc3.d/S08rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/rc.local, ../rc3.d/S14rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc4.d/S08plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/plymouth, ../rc4.d/S14plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc4.d/S08reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/reniced, ../rc4.d/S14reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc4.d/S08grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/grub-common, ../rc4.d/S14grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc4.d/S08ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/ondemand, ../rc4.d/S14ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc4.d/S08rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/rc.local, ../rc4.d/S14rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc5.d/S08plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/plymouth, ../rc5.d/S14plymouth): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc5.d/S08reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/reniced, ../rc5.d/S14reniced): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc5.d/S08grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/grub-common, ../rc5.d/S14grub-common): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc5.d/S08ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/ondemand, ../rc5.d/S14ondemand): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc5.d/S08rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/rc.local, ../rc5.d/S14rc.local): Permission denied
insserv: can not remove(../rc6.d/K04avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: can not symlink(../init.d/avahi-daemon, ../rc6.d/K03avahi-daemon): Permission denied
insserv: fopen(.depend.stop): Permission denied
Best Answer
OK, after much of hair pulling and digging deeper, I've finally found the issue:
It appears that
insserv
stumbles upon some services, so I've moved all services thatinsserv
was complaining about to a temporarily created dir:/etc/d.init
from/etc/init.d
. Then, I didsudo dpkg --configure -a
and voila, it worked almost without errors. I ran it a couple more times until all the errors disappeared.After that, I did
sudo apt-get -f install
just to make sure, and there is nothing left.Then I started to reinstall and reset the configs in problematic packages, so, gradually, I came up with the following script:
During comparison, I've noticed, that showfsck's file doesn't have the required header that I've read about on forums. All init.d scripts have to have the following header:
I didn't know what values it should have so I left them empty. My installation works now without errors.