...and resolved on my system. Searched again recently for the error. Found a recommendation to try
sudo apt install mount --reinstall Look at what I had tried before as noted in initial bug report. Did not try this. mount was successfully reinstalled followed by me updating the 215 packages that were pending update since this problem began. Have now successfully updated packages twice since performing this fix. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701162 Title: package mount 2.29-1ubuntu2.1 failed to install/upgrade: package mount is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu: New Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: sudo apt upgrade fails. Output is as follows... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/130 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y dpkg: error processing package mount (--configure): package mount is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') Errors were encountered while processing: mount E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've combed the web for a solution and tried all of the following. None of which have resolved the issue... sudo apt-get install -f sudo apt-get install --fix-broken --fix-missing sudo apt-get -f install sudo apt-get update –fix-missing sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade sudo apt --reinstall mount sudo dpkg –configure -a sudo dpkg -r -a ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: mount 2.29-1ubuntu2.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-24.28-generic 4.10.15 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1 AptOrdering: mount:amd64: Configure NULL: ConfigurePending Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jun 29 00:16:17 2017 DpkgTerminalLog: dpkg: error processing package mount (--configure): package mount is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') ErrorMessage: package mount is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-02 (300 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.18.10ubuntu2 apt 1.4 SourcePackage: util-linux Title: package mount 2.29-1ubuntu2.1 failed to install/upgrade: package mount is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status 'half-installed') UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-05-20 (39 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1701162/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
