Unable to process upgrades due to error with snmpd

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Running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server edition. Just recently started getting these errors with snmpd:

Setting up snmpd (5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1) ...
update-rc.d: warning:  stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match snmpd Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
 * Starting network management services:                                                                                                          invoke-rc.d: initscript snmpd, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package snmpd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libsvn1:amd64 (1.8.8-1ubuntu3.2) ...
Setting up subversion (1.8.8-1ubuntu3.2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 snmpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is the output of apt-cache policy snmpd:

root@maleficent:/home/dlanier# apt-cache policy snmpd
snmpd:
  Installed: 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Tom Siwik · Answer

I had exactly the same problem.

sudo dpkg --purge snmp

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmysqlclient18 libperl5.18 libsnmp30 mysql-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  snmpd*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 232 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

Whoops.... its perl, mysql and the snmp lib.
sudo apt-get purge snmpd

Get rid of that too. Not only the config files.
If you want to get rid of the AUTOREMOVE messages and/or you actually need the packages just remove and reinstall the packages.

sudo apt-get autoremove

Modify as you please:

sudo apt-get install libperl5.18 libsnmp30 libmysqlclient18 mysql-common

Unable to process upgrades due to error with snmpd

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