[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#881342: dbus: apt-get install hangs when DBUS is setup, on a Minimal system

[Veek M]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.10.22-0+deb9u1
Followup-For: Bug #881342

Dear Maintainer,

apt then dies miserably leaving an usuable system - when you do:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Basically since dbus is unconfigured and exited uncleanly - you then have to kill invoke-rc.d hoping
dbus.postinst will run
root      2939  0.0  0.0   4288  1564 ?        S    19:55   0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbus.postinst configure
root      2974  0.0  0.0   4288  1524 ?        S    19:55   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d dbus start
root      2991  0.0  0.1  44640  2152 ?        S    19:55   0:00 systemctl start dbus.service
root      2992  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:55   0:00 [systemd-tty-ask] <defunct>

then when you do dpkg --configure every package relying on dbus will fail and you get:

 baloo-kf5
 kactivitymanagerd
 libkf5plasmaquick5:amd64
 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols:amd64
 plasma-framework
 libkf5baloowidgets5:amd64
 kpackagelauncherqml
 libkf5iconthemes-bin
 libkf5quickaddons5:amd64
 qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons:amd64
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.

hooray :|