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I'm sorry if I post this in the wrong project, this is actually my first report here.

So, here's the actual error, which left "ceph-base" (and thus the other packages depending on it) un-configured.

Unpacking ceph-base (10.1.0-1~bpo80+1) over (10.1.0-1~bpo80+1) ...
Setting up ceph-base (10.1.0-1~bpo80+1) ...
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package ceph-base (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

A bit of info on the machine first (if that helps):

1. lsb_release
   Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie)

1. uname -a
   Linux PVE03-LAB 4.2.8-1-pve #1 SMP Fri Feb 26 16:37:36 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Fiddling with the pre-install script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/ceph-base.prerm), and setting #!/bin/sh in debug mode (-x), helped me find the actual issue:

insserv: script ceph-base: service ceph already provided!
insserv: exiting now!

I pinpointed the issue to the init script being already provided by "ceph" on 0.94, while systemd tries to re-create the existing service when installing ceph-base, which is a new package.

1. dpkg -S /etc/init.d/ceph
   ceph: /etc/init.d/ceph

So, my workaround was to simply delete "/etc/init.d/ceph", and now if I apt-get dist-upgrade, everything works as expected.

I know you guys will find a proper way to remove that annoyance.

Thanks!