[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#736258: acpid won't stop, won't upgrade (systemd) - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736258

[Zenaan Harkness]

Debian sid

acpid | 1:2.0.22-3

Interrelated problem A:
$ ps aux|egrep -i acpid
root       318  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:40   0:00 [ktpacpid]
root     19855  0.0  0.0   4372   972 ?        Ss   17:45   0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
$ sudo systemctl stop acpid
Job for acpid.service canceled.
$ ps aux|egrep -i acpid
root       318  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   12:40   0:00 [ktpacpid]
root     19960  0.0  0.0   4372   972 ?        Ss   17:46   0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid

Interrelated problem B:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acpid
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/54.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 354024 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpid_1%3a2.0.22-3_amd64.deb ...
Job for acpid.service canceled.
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
Job for acpid.service canceled.
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.22-3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.22-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Possibly the bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736258

Been happening the past week or so (although I hadn't tried to upgrade
for a while before that).

Any ideas?
Zenaan