E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Igor]

Hi All,

When installing Ubuntu 14.04 with singularity 2.1, I am getting the following errors during bootstrapping:

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Errors were encountered while processing:
libpam-systemd:amd64
policykit-1
colord
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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My host OS is Ubuntu 16.04.

I believe I was getting similar errors with singularity 2.0 and Ubuntu 16.04 in the container. No such errors under CentOS.

My def file is:

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DistType "debian"
MirrorURL "http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/"
OSVersion "trusty"

Setup
Bootstrap

RunCmd sed -i 's/$/ universe/' /etc/apt/sources.list
RunCmd apt-get update

InstallPkgs vim emacs aptitude python gcc g++ gfortran perl ruby

Cleanup

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Thank you,

Igor

[Gregory M. Kurtzer]

Hi Igor,

I too am getting some errors like:

debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog

debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)

debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline

initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused

invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/systemd-logind not found.

dpkg: error processing package libpam-systemd:amd64 (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100

But I do have TERM defined, so I'm not sure what is going on. Maybe it doesn't like my particular TERM setting (screen)? As far as not being able to find init scripts, that I would think is a packaging issue on the Ubuntu side maybe not defining the prereqs properly? <shrugs>

This does bring up another issue from my perspective. About daemon processes getting started within a bootstrap'ing.... hrmmm. Does anybody have thoughts on this?

Thanks!

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[Priedhorsky, Reid]

Side note, the TERM business here is a warning rather than an error. That said, Debian packaging stuff tends to be pretty solid, so if it were me I’d take the description (not set) at face value.

HTH,

Reid

[ademola ayobami]

please i am having same error for almost one month now...is there any solution to this?  (E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)) i get that error when i try to upgrade or even install..

thank you

Ademola