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I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Server 14.04 to 16.04, the upgrade process was interrupted in the last step, after that I cannot use apt to install any software because of broken packages also the kernel was not upgraded.

apt-get upgrade gives me these errors

Errors were encountered while processing:
 cron
 initscripts
 procps
 udev
 plymouth
 mountall
 dbus
 accountsservice
 language-selector-common
 uuid-runtime
 apache2
 grub-common
 grub2-common
 grub-pc-bin
 grub-pc
 mysql-server-5.7
 ntp
 keyboard-configuration
 console-setup
 kbd
 console-setup-linux
 anacron
 logrotate
 resolvconf
 rsyslog
 irqbalance
 cgroup-lite
 cgmanager
 systemd-shim
 libpam-systemd:amd64
 plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
 rsync
 ubuntu-standard
 acct
 at
 biosdevname
 screen
 policykit-1
 colord
 ipmitool
 netfilter-persistent
 iptables-persistent
 postfix
 iwatch
 logwatch
 lvm2
 mailutils
 mysql-server
 rpcbind
 nfs-common
 nfs-kernel-server
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How can I resolve them please?

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  • Did you tried sudo apt-get install -f?
    – N0rbert
    Aug 5, 2018 at 12:28
  • @N0rbert Yes I tried and got the same output
    – Mohsen Ibrahim
    Aug 5, 2018 at 13:23

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I had another error which I did not post here and it appeared to be the one causing all these issues.

insserv: There is a loop between service monit and sshd-monit if stopped

I deleted /etc/init.d/sshd-monit and the problem was solved.

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  • In another server I had also to delete /etc/init.d/hst too
    – Mohsen Ibrahim
    Aug 11, 2018 at 13:25
  • On another server I had this issue insserv: Service mountdevsubfs has to be enabled to start service hwclock and it was resolved using rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst && apt-get dist-upgrade -f
    – Mohsen Ibrahim
    Aug 15, 2018 at 10:01

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