Bug#883877: rsyslog: fails to configure, dpkg --configure exits with error

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2017-12-18 2:08 GMT+02:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I just uploaded v236 today. Before we try to debug this further, it
> would be great if you can give this version a try. Maybe your issue is
> already fixed.
> If not, we'll have to involve upstream at some point by filing an
> upstream bug report. But let's first wait for your results with 236-1

The issue is not fixed. Something fails at communicating with dbus,
and it messes up everything else.

Googling up the issue, I found this:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+question/287454

As to whether this is the exact issue we're seeing, I wouldn't know.

However, there's one interesting problem:  purging all dbus-related
packages (dpkg -P --force-all) fails because dbus's maintainer scripts
call dbus... whose socket cannot be reached for some damn reason.
Thus, my attempt at reainstaling it also fails.

Martin-Éric