I was running sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y yesterday. There was an update for the package ebtables (I looked it up and apparently it is iptables but for Ethernet?). However, apt was failing to install it.
root@win10:~# apt dist-upgrade -V Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: ebtables (2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2 => 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.1) 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/79.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 29277 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ebtables_2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.1_amd64.deb ... invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel * Error: insufficient privileges to access the ebtables rulesets. invoke-rc.d: initscript ebtables, action "stop" failed. dpkg: warning: old ebtables package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel * Error: insufficient privileges to access the ebtables rulesets. invoke-rc.d: initscript ebtables, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ebtables_2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): new ebtables package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I tried a reboot, sudo dpkg --configure -a, and sudo apt clean/autoclean/remove/install -f/update/..., but nothing worked.
What should I do now? Should I just hold the package (sudo apt-mark hold ebtables)? Is there a workaround to installing it?