[Bug 1831221] Re: do-release-upgrade fails due to package libpam0g:amd64 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1

[Drew Peterson]

Ah, that was the piece I was missing. Somehow after adding the debian-
installer repo in order to play with d-i creation, either I accidentally
installed cdebconf-udeb, or some other package took it on as a
dependency and I didn't even notice it (for a few years I might add).

I'm honestly surprised this hadn't caused issues before. It certainly
wreaked havoc on my system during this attempted upgrade. I was
eventually able to brute-force the removal of cdebconf and reconfigure
debconf and fix my broken system.

This is resolved, and was not an issue with libpam but rather my own
misfortune and cdebconf being _almost good enough_ to fool me.

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Title:
  do-release-upgrade fails due to package libpam0g:amd64
  1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1

Status in pam package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  While performing a release upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04, the do-
  release-upgrade process crashes, apparently due to a failure
  installing or upgrading the package libpam0g:amd64 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: libpam0g:amd64 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-165.215-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-165-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: rr232x
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.29
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May 31 04:35:26 2019
  DuplicateSignature: package:libpam0g:amd64:1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.5
   apt  1.2.31
  SourcePackage: pam
  Title: package libpam0g:amd64 1.1.8-3.2ubuntu2.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2019-05-31 (0 days ago)

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