Cannot upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04

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As I do every week, I maintained my Ubuntu doing a typical update / upgrade / clean

root@openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts:~# apt update && apt upgrade && apt clean
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mrazavi/openvas/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/scaleway/stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
All packages are up to date.
Reading package listsā€¦ Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state informationā€¦ Done
Calculating upgradeā€¦ 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 openvas9-scanner (5.1.3-1) ā€¦
Job for openvas-scanner.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See ā€œsystemctl status openvas-scanner.serviceā€ and ā€œjournalctl -xeā€ for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript openvas-scanner, action ā€œstartā€ failed.
ā— openvas-scanner.service - LSB: remote network security auditor - scanner
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2018-10-19 08:52:20 UTC; 18ms ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 16757 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
CGroup: /system.slice/openvas-scanner.service
ā”œā”€ 3660 /usr/sbin/openvassd
ā”œā”€ 8340 /usr/sbin/openvassd
ā”œā”€15908 /usr/sbin/openvassd
ā””ā”€16762 /usr/sbin/openvassd

Oct 19 08:47:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts systemd[1]: Starting LSB: remote network security auditor - scannerā€¦
Oct 19 08:47:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts openvas-scanner[16757]: (openvassd:16762): lib kb_redis-CRITICAL **: fetch_max_db_index: cannot retrieve max DB number: LOADING Redis is loadā€¦t in memory
Oct 19 08:52:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts systemd[1]: openvas-scanner.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Oct 19 08:52:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: remote network security auditor - scanner.
Oct 19 08:52:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts systemd[1]: openvas-scanner.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 19 08:52:20 openvas-ubuntu-16-04-lts systemd[1]: openvas-scanner.service: Failed with result ā€˜timeoutā€™.
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dpkg: error processing package openvas9-scanner (ā€“configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
openvas9-scanner
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried several options :

  • Waiting the system is as idle as possible --> did not help
  • Stopping the service manually prior to starting the command --> did not help

I just invoked a reboot ā€¦ we will see if it helps but it always hangs doing

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 openvas9-scanner (5.1.3-1) ā€¦

Progress: [ 0%] [ā€¦]

\T,

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I am sorry but this seems to be an issue with your specific packages. Please contact the maintainers of http://ppa.launchpad.net/mrazavi/openvas/ubuntu

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The following post should be valid here as well:

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