Public bug reported: running the usual daily apt-get dist-upgrade, the process was left a bit behind by cups not finishing installation.
myrtti@kengu:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Exit Code: 100 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up cups (1.5.2-9ubuntu1) ... start: Job failed to start invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cups E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) myrtti@kengu:~$ sudo lsb_release -a Exit Code: 100 No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 Codename: precise myrtti@kengu:~$ sudo apt-cache policy cups Exit Code: 100 cups: Installed: 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 Candidate: 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-030400rc2-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Apr 10 18:41:24 2012 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302) Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Connection refused MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D630 Papersize: letter PccardctlIdent: Socket 0: no product info available PccardctlStatus: Socket 0: no card ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0-030400rc2-generic root=UUID=2eac8803-efce-4add-b216-7e718b82e62e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: cups Title: package cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-31 (10 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 07/23/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A03 dmi.board.name: 0KU184 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd07/23/2007:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD630:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0KU184:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr: dmi.product.name: Latitude D630 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. ** Affects: cups (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-package precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/978132 Title: package cups 1.5.2-9ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/978132/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs