Re-opening as I still hit this. I performed: apt-get remove --purge nut apt-get clean apt-get install nut
and get: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: mcpp libgtkhtml2.0-cil Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: nut-cgi nut-dev nut-snmp The following NEW packages will be installed: nut 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1405kB of archives. After this operation, 3564kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://127.0.0.1 hardy/main nut 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu3 [1405kB] Fetched 1405kB in 0s (15.4MB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package nut. (Reading database ... 179459 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nut (from .../nut_2.2.1-2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Setting up nut (2.2.1-2.1ubuntu3) ... cp: cannot create special file `/dev/kmem': File exists cp: cannot create special file `/dev/loop0': File exists cp: cannot create special file `/dev/net/tun': File exists cp: cannot create special file `/dev/null': File exists cp: cannot create special file `/dev/ppp': File exists invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing nut (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: nut E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Changed in: nut (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Triaged -- nut 2.2.1-2.1ubuntu1 fails to install on Hardy Heron https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs