Public bug reported: Hi,
I had a system crash after an upgrade to 14.10. The problem was in Nvidia driver. I had to purge all nvidia packages. All are gone successfully except this one - nvidia-prime. It is most probably already removed, but its service data still remains, and dpkg tries to start/stop/reconfig it before trying to remove/reinstal. That's all. Thank you very much for bringing us he great Linux OS like this :) ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: nvidia-prime 0.6.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-11.16-generic 3.16.1 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu1 AptOrdering: nvidia-prime: Configure Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Sep 1 12:09:09 2014 DpkgTerminalLog: Setting up nvidia-prime (0.6.6) ... Failed to issue method call: Unit nvidia-prime.service failed to load: No such file or directory. invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-prime, action "start" failed. DuplicateSignature: package:nvidia-prime:0.6.6:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-15 (350 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) SourcePackage: nvidia-prime Title: package nvidia-prime 0.6.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-08-29 (2 days ago) ** Affects: nvidia-prime (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-package utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1363871 Title: package nvidia-prime 0.6.6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-prime/+bug/1363871/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs