Comment 0 for bug 1452238

Download and install the 14.04 image.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/14.04/release/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64+mac.iso

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
.....
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libdbus-1-3:amd64 (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3) ...
Setting up libcgmanager0:amd64 (0.24-0ubuntu7.3) ...
Setting up libudev1:amd64 (204-5ubuntu20.11) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.6) ...
(Reading database ... 163205 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ifupdown_0.7.47.2ubuntu4.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ifupdown (0.7.47.2ubuntu4.1) over (0.7.47.2ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ifupdown:
 ifupdown depends on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-25); however:
  Package initscripts is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package ifupdown (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)