% ati smartmontools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: smartmontools 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/263kB of archives. After unpacking 639kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Selecting previously deselected package smartmontools. (Reading database ... 248878 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking smartmontools (from .../smartmontools_5.36-8ubuntu2_i386.deb) ... Setting up smartmontools (5.36-8ubuntu2) ... * Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon smartd [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: smartmontools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up smartmontools (5.36-8ubuntu2) ... * Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon smartd [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: smartmontools