dpkg errors when doing upgrade on raspian, how to fix?

[crobar]

I recently attempted an update and upgrade on my raspberry pi 3 but got the following errors from dpkg:

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    Setting up console-setup-linux (1.188) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package console-setup-linux (--configure):
     installed console-setup-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-setup:
     console-setup depends on console-setup-linux | console-setup-freebsd | hurd; however:
      Package console-setup-linux is not configured yet.
      Package console-setup-freebsd is not installed.
      Package hurd is not installed.
    
    dpkg: error processing package console-setup (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up dbus (1.12.12-1) ...
    A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon.
    Please reboot the system when convenient.
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package dbus (--configure):
     installed dbus package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up alsa-utils (1.1.7-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package alsa-utils (--configure):
     installed alsa-utils package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bluez:
     bluez depends on dbus; however:
      Package dbus is not configured yet.
    
    dpkg: error processing package bluez (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up ntp (1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-3) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package ntp (--configure):
     installed ntp package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up policycoreutils (2.8-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package policycoreutils (--configure):
     installed policycoreutils package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Setting up rsync (3.1.3-1) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package rsync (--configure):
     installed rsync package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of selinux-policy-default:
     selinux-policy-default depends on policycoreutils (>= 2.7); however:
      Package policycoreutils is not configured yet.
    
    dpkg: error processing package selinux-policy-default (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Setting up sudo (1.8.26-2) ...
    insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
    insserv: exiting now!
    update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
    dpkg: error processing package sudo (--configure):
     installed sudo package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     console-setup-linux
     console-setup
     dbus
     alsa-utils
     bluez
     ntp
     policycoreutils
     rsync
     selinux-policy-default
     sudo
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This happened when I left update running on a screen session and forgot about it for some time, then came back and it was showing a changelog (or something like this) which I scrolled through and quit (I presume this is unrelated though)).

Here's what was in my sources.list:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
#deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi

and in files in sources.list.d

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# added to allow certbot installation (see
# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2673
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi
deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

I tried commenting out

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deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi

from /etc/apt/sources.list and also commenting out

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deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

So I now have the following:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
#deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie main contrib non-free rpi
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
deb http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ jessie main ui
# added to allow certbot installation (see
# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2673
#deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib non-free rpi
#deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable

I then ran

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apt update

and

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apt upgrade

. This produced the following error:

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Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 46385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_215-17+deb8u8_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking libudev1:armhf (215-17+deb8u8) over (215-17+deb8u7) ...
Setting up libudev1:armhf (215-17+deb8u8) ...
(Reading database ... 46385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../udev_215-17+deb8u8_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking udev (215-17+deb8u8) over (215-17+deb8u7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-1) ...
Setting up udev (215-17+deb8u8) ...
addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
insserv: FATAL: service udev is missed in the runlevels 2 3 4 5 to use service raspi-config
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
 installed udev package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So now only one package appears to have an error. I thought perhaps I could just reinstall this package, so I tried the following:

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sudo apt install --reinstall udev

but got the following output:

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt install --reinstall udev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  checkpolicy g++-4.9 imagemagick-common libapache2-mod-php5 libapol4 libargon2-0 libasprintf0c2 libauparse0 libbabeltrace1 libbind9-90 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0 libclass-method-modifiers-perl libcpan-changes-perl
  libcryptsetup12 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdns100 libevent-2.1-6 libfastjson4 libfile-slurp-perl libicu57 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libisl10 libjim0.75 libjs-excanvas liblognorm5 liblua5.1-0 liblwres90 liblz4-1 libmagickcore-6.q16-5
  libmagickwand-6.q16-5 libmariadbclient18 libmpfr4 libonig2 libperl4-corelibs-perl libprocps7 libpython3.4-minimal libpython3.4-stdlib libqdbm14 libqpol1 librole-tiny-perl libssl1.0.2 libstdc++-4.9-dev libtimedate-perl libtry-tiny-perl
  libvpx1 libxapian30 linux-base lsof php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-readline python-audit python-ipy python-pyasn1 python-selinux python-semanage python-sepolgen python-sepolicy python-setools python3-pyinotify python3.4
  python3.4-minimal samba-common selinux-policy-default setools sgml-base tcpd xml-core
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
11 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for udev:armhf

Some googling revealed this link where they have the same error, i.e.

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addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.

and fix it by removing this group by commenting it out in /etc/group, then running addgroup --system input. I've no idea if this is a good thing to do.

Incidentally if I do cat /etc/os-release I get something unexpected, I expected to see jessie?

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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux buster/sid"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs""

Can anyone please tell me if it is possible to fix this remaining udev error (or whatever the underlying cause is)? I've not got a very deep understanding of the packaging system.

Thanks!

[arochester]

Raspberry Pi Forum? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66

[crobar]

Raspberry Pi Forum? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66

Sure, I'll ask there, but I didn't know if this was raspian specific question or more general than that (I believe more general).

[llivv]

its not udev
it's one of the init scripts that insserv is flagging as out of order.

ask in

Raspberry Pi Forum? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=66

if a bug needs to be filed and on which rasbian package?
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see also
https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/ ... yBasedBoot
https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/
https://wiki.debian.org/MetaInit/InitSurvey