Apt error

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Hi. I’m currently on pre-release 26.04 and have encountered the following errors when updating:

Setting up rsyslog (8.2512.0-1ubuntu3) …
warn: The user syslog' is already a member of adm’.
dpkg: error processing package rsyslog (–configure):
installed rsyslog package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Setting up kdump-tools (1:1.10.7ubuntu3) …
dpkg: error processing package kdump-tools (–configure):
installed kdump-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Setting up grub-pc (2.14-2ubuntu1) …
dpkg: error processing package grub-pc (–configure):
installed grub-pc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi-amd64-signed:
grub-efi-amd64-signed depends on grub-efi-amd64 | grub-pc; however:
Package grub-efi-amd64 is not installed.
Package grub-pc is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package grub-efi-amd64-signed (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
rsyslog
kdump-tools
grub-pc
grub-efi-amd64-signed
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I’ve tried a lot of different solutions I found through Google and none have worked (sudo apt install -f, sudo dpkg --configure -a, etc) and would appreciated some assistance.

Thanks!

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Welcome to Ubuntu Discourse :slight_smile:

Well, things often move quite quickly with development releases so I would try updating again and see whether or not the issue persists.

If yes, post the end lines from sudo apt update

Also, please wrap output with code tags rather than quotes.

You can highlight the text and click on </> in the composer to do this.

Thanks

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Last week on my install of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS development version I had to shutdown and re-boot and re-run update/upgrade three times in order to get all the updates downloaded and installed. I think it was due to packages that were being updated and the necessary dependencies not also being downloaded.

I have never seen that happen before. I was thinking that the OS was so broken that I might need to re-install. Things seem to be fine now.

Regards

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Thanks for responding, rubi1200.

sudo apt update:

All packages are up to date.

sudo apt upgrade:

Same error as in original.

Not sure what else I can do. I made a similar post on launchpad.net and was asked to upload a bunch of log files but it was determined they couldn’t offer much help. I’ve rebooted several times by now and no dice.

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have you tried full-upgrade?

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Yes, I have tried sudo apt full-upgrade. Same errors :frowning: