Can't install ssh and opnessh-server ? ? ?

[untenops]

I use BackupPC run from another machine to backup all my computers. After installing LMDE on my desktop I was trying to set this up again and ran the following to install some needed programs on my LMDE box:
apt-get install rsync ssh openssh-server
As it tried to install I got a few errors that I will have to look up again tonight in order to post them here. But the out come was that rsync was install, but ssh and openssh-server are both partiality installed. At this point I can not ssh into my LMDE box. Has anyone else had problems installing ssh and openssh-server on LMDE? Is there a fix?
Thanks.

[irianx]

Hi, sorry I am using ssh and openssh-server at LMDE 201204 without problems. Maybe this helps:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server --fix-missing

[untenops]

Thanks for the reply but I get the same error.

Here it is.

desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server --fix-missing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
openssh-server is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 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 openssh-server (1:5.9p1-3) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K07smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'smfpd' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop at service smfpd if started
insserv: There is a loop between service smfpd and mountnfs-bootclean if started
insserv: loop involving service mountnfs-bootclean at depth 8
insserv: loop involving service mountnfs at depth 7
insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
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insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting smfpd depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Max recursions depth 99 reached
insserv: loop involving service smfpd at depth 8
insserv: There is a loop between service smfpd and mountnfs if started
insserv: loop involving service alsa-utils at depth 10
insserv: loop involving service portmap at depth 7
insserv: There is a loop between service minissdpd and mountall if started
insserv: loop involving service mountall at depth 5
insserv: loop involving service checkfs at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service minissdpd and ifupdown if started
insserv: loop involving service ifupdown at depth 7
insserv: loop involving service ifupdown-clean at depth 6
insserv: loop involving service networking at depth 9
insserv: There is a loop between service minissdpd and checkroot if started
insserv: loop involving service checkroot at depth 4
insserv: loop involving service hwclockfirst at depth 3
insserv: loop involving service module-init-tools at depth 5
insserv: loop involving service cryptdisks-early at depth 6
insserv: loop involving service hostname at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service minissdpd and checkroot if started
insserv: There is a loop between service smfpd and mountdevsubfs if started
insserv: loop involving service mountdevsubfs at depth 2
insserv: loop involving service udev at depth 1
insserv: loop involving service avahi at depth 15
insserv: loop involving service bootlogd at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service minissdpd and mountall-bootclean if started
insserv: loop involving service mountall-bootclean at depth 1
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ssh:
ssh depends on openssh-server; however:
Package openssh-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ssh (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
openssh-server
ssh
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
untenops@untenops-desktop:~$

[untenops]

Ok I've gotten this to work. Maybe not the best practice but everything seem to work fine.
I did a search for the file 'smfpd' and simply renamed it 'smfpd-old'.
I was then able to finish the install of ssh and openssh-server. I can now ssh into my desktop machine and BackupPC is working fine.