When trying to repair broken packages, I get the dpkg error 'invoke-rc.d: initscript emifreq-applet, action "start" failed'

Hi,

First please make sure to close all open programs, including all package managers like Synaptic, Add/remove programs, etc ...

Then please try this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
Terminal"

Step 2: Please COPY-PASTE each line below into the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)

sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo aptitude clean
sudo aptitude autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude install -f
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output from each command) on this thread

Hope it helps,

Regards,

Mark

This was going really smooth until
sudo dpkg --configure -a when i got the following error

Setting up emifreq-applet (0.18-4ubuntu1) ...
Starting CPU frequency scaling daemon: CpuFreq support not available. Check sysfs is mounted and your CPU-specific module is loaded or built in the kernel.
invoke-rc.d: initscript emifreq-applet, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing emifreq-applet (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emifreq-applet

Mark Rijckenberg wrote:
> Your question #82592 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/82592
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
>
> First please make sure to close all open programs, including all package managers like Synaptic, Add/remove programs, etc ...
>
>
> Then please try this procedure:
>
>
> Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->
> Terminal"
>
>
> Step 2: Please COPY-PASTE each line below into the Terminal then hit <enter> after each line)
>
> sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
> sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
> sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
> sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
> sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
> sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
> sudo aptitude clean
> sudo aptitude autoclean
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo dpkg --clear-avail
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
> sudo aptitude install -f
> sudo aptitude update
> sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
>
>
> Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output from each command) on this thread
>
>
> Hope it helps,
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Mark
>
>
Thanks

Dallas

Your PC seems to be experiencing this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emifreq-applet/+bug/385981
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emifreq-applet/+bug/257040

Try running the following command to erase the problematic package emifreq-applet

sudo aptitude purge emifreq-applet

Then run the following commands

sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude install -f
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Please post output of all the commands here.