Confirmed, Lucid in chroot: LANG=C sudo apt-get install --reinstall dbus Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2ubuntu4) ... The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting. Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gconf2-common: gconf2-common depends on dbus; however: Package dbus is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gconf2-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgconf2-4: libgconf2-4 depends on gconf2-common (>= 2.28); however: Package gconf2-common is not configured yet. libgconf2-4 depends on gconf2-common (<< 2.29); however: Package gconf2-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libgconf2-4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: dbus gconf2-common libgconf2-4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- within chroot, can fail to reload daemon configuration if not running (detects dbus daemon outside of chroot) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441100 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs