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I was trying to purge roundup, and aptitude has output the following error lines:

update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/roundup exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing roundup (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
                                                                    Errors were encountered while processing:
 roundup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

aptitude's logs do not help; the following line is written there:

IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to
dpkg problems may not be completed.

but the following two lines appeared in apt/history.log:

Purge: roundup:amd64 (1.4.18-1.1)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

roundup, by the way, is an issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. I don't use it.

System information: I am using Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, output of uname -srvmpio is:

Linux 3.2.0-61-generic #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 21:31:50 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

As requested, I have tried the following command:

sudo dpkg -P --force-all --force-remove-reinstreq roundup

and the output was:

Removing roundup ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/roundup exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing roundup (--purge):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 roundup

It may worth mentioning that this was done both before and after running the command

sudo update-rc.d -f roundup remove

Update: update the failing attempts to purge, the state of the package, according to aptitude, was H, which means half-installed. I have tried to reinstall it (was successful) and remove it again, but with no luck - same error has appeared, and the state is back again half-installed.

Bach
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Try to forcely remove the roundup package,

sudo dpkg -P --force-remove-reinstreq roundup

Or

Try to move the roundup-dirs and roundup to some other location and then try the above command like,

sudo mv /etc/init.d/roundup-dirs ~/
sudo mv /etc/init.d/roundup ~/
sudo dpkg -P --force-all --force-remove-reinstreq roundup
Avinash Raj
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