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Asked: 2019-03-16 08:16:53 +0800 CST

Can't install anything because of "spacenavd"

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I tried to install something called spacenav a while ago to try using a fancy mouse with my computer, but it didn't work. Here s what happened just now when I tried to install ntfs-config

$ sudo apt install ntfs-config

and I got

Need to get 0 B/74.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 776 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.6) ...
insserv: warning: script 'S99spacenavd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'spacenavd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service plymouth and procps if started
insserv:  loop involving service procps at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service udev at depth 1
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Max recursions depth 99 reached
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: There is a loop between service spacenavd and hwclock if started
insserv:  loop involving service hwclock at depth 1
insserv: There is a loop at service plymouth if started
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: There is a loop at service spacenavd if started
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: There is a loop between service plymouth and urandom if started
insserv:  loop involving service urandom at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service mountdevsubfs at depth 2
insserv: There is a loop between service spacenavd and udev if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountkernfs at depth 1
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting spacenavd depends on plymouth and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: There is a loop between service spacenavd and dns-clean if started
insserv:  loop involving service dns-clean at depth 1
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 util-linux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't care about fixing the mouse issue

software-installation command-line apt

2 Answers

  1. I guess you could try "uninstall" spacenavd. Currently aptitude is still trying to complete that installation. Running the follow should remove it from the list of apps to try to install:

    sudo apt-get remove spacenavd

    once that completes I imagine your command ( sudo apt install ntfs-config ) will complete.

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  2. I followed the comments in this thread and fixed the problem. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/284708

    The command was 

    $ sudo rm -v /etc/rc*/*spacenavd

    and the output was

    removed '/etc/rc2.d/S99spacenavd'

    Note that the problem in the linked thread is something called runmbbservice, and my problem was spacenavd. The linked thread says that the file was empty, but mine wasn't.

    The output of

    $ cat -n /etc/init.d/spacenavd

    on my computer was 

     1  #!/bin/sh
 2  #
 3  # spacenavd      free driver for 3Dconnexion 6dof devices
 4  #
 5  # chkconfig: 2345 99 99
 6  # description: A free user space driver for 3Dconnexion input devices,\
 7  #              compatible with the proprietary 3dxsrv daemon.
 8  
 9  DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/spacenavd
10  
11  [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
12  
13  case "$1" in
14  start)
15      echo 'Starting spacenavd daemon'
16      $DAEMON -v
17      ;;
18  
19  stop)
20      echo 'Stopping spacenavd daemon'
21      # detect daemon's process id
22      pid=`cat /var/run/spnavd.pid 2>/dev/null`
23      if [ $? != 0 ]; then
24          pid=`ps -e | grep spacenavd | awk '{ print $1 }'`
25          if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
26              echo 'spacenavd daemon is not running, nothing to do.'
27              exit 1
28          fi
29      fi
30      kill $pid
31      ;;
32  
33  reload|restart|force-reload)
34      $0 stop && sleep 1 && $0 start
35      ;;
36  esac

    I used the command $ locate spacenavd to find the files I needed to remove, as per the instructions in the linked thread.

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