Package: packagekit
Version: 1.1.12-5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I upgraded from Debian 9 (stretch) to 10 (buster) yesterday. Since then
problems with packagekit have affected my ability to use other software.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
1) apt update
2) Tried to start apache2
* What was the outcome of this action?
1) error message as part of the apt output:
Error message: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked:
Unit -.mount is masked.
2) # service apache2 start
Failed to start apache2.service: Unit -.mount is masked.
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* What outcome did you expect instead?
1) I did not expect the error message.
2) I expected apache2 to start.
Addenda:
I found the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20packagekit. When I removed it, I did
not get the apt error message.
Searching on the apt error message, I found instructions to do the following:
systemctl unmask packagekit.service
systemctl start packagekit.service
The second command produced this error message: "Failed to start
packagekit.service: Unit -.mount is masked."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages packagekit depends on:
ii libappstream4 0.12.5-1
ii libapt-inst2.0 1.8.2
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.3-2
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.14.4-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.12-5
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-25
ii libsqlite3-0 3.27.2-3
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii libsystemd0 241-5
ii policykit-1 0.105-25
Versions of packages packagekit recommends:
ii packagekit-tools 1.1.12-5
Versions of packages packagekit suggests:
pn appstream <none>
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