I just checked here and I can install LXC 1.0.5-0ubuntu0.1 and remove it
fine with both apt-get and aptitude.
Looking at the error you're getting, the problem is that you have a
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d script present on your system. That file is typically
created by debootstrap or other similar tools to prevent daemon startups in
chroot, however the version of the script generated by deboostrap and others is
typically valid shell, so I wonder where yours came from.
Anyway, remove /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d and things will start working
again.
Marking the bug as invalid, since it's not an lxc issue and the same
problem will happen with any other package shipping init scripts.
** Changed in: lxc (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1361976
Title:
LXC 1.0.5-0ubuntu0 is uninstallable
Status in “lxc” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
root@sol:/etc# aptitude remove lxc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lxc
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 758 kB will be freed.
(Reading database ... 105481 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lxc (1.0.5-0ubuntu0.1) ...
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d: line 60: [: missing `]'
stop: Job failed while stopping
invoke-rc.d: initscript lxc-net, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing package lxc (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d: line 60: [: missing `]'
invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start.
/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d: line 60: [: missing `]'
lxc-net start/running
Errors were encountered while processing:
lxc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
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