I can't install udev on plain ubuntu 14.04

Question

I've plain Ubuntu 14.04 Server (64-bit) installation. When use: ``` sudo apt-get update ``` Print this error: ``` .... Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. ``` After removing tmp.i `/var/lib/dpkg/updates# sudo rm tmp.i` apt-get update went OK but... When I tried 'sudo apt-get upgrade': ``` Fetched 534 kB in 4s (112 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done root@vps****:/# sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Setting up udev (204-5ubuntu20.9) ... * udev requires hotplug support, not started ...fail! invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error proces…

Accepted Answer

The reason may be that problem occurs on all Ubuntu 14.04 installations on OVH servers. I've contacted technical support they don't have any answer that may help apart from 'help yourself'.

After getting this error:

```
nano /etc/init.d/udev
```

After the ### END INIT INFO add:

```
exit 0         
```

Save and exit.

```
dpkg --configure -a         
apt-get upgrade         
```

Edit the file again, and remove the `exit 0`, save & exit then installing subsequent packages work correctly and the system seems fine after reboots, without that awful error message ever appearing.

Temporary solution from this thread: http://forum.ovh.co.uk/showthread.php?8480-udev-requires-hotplug-support-not-started/page2&s=2144010031f992268c5690726da09284

I can't install udev on plain ubuntu 14.04

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