"E: Internal error" apt-get installing sysvinit

[Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca>]

05:13:15 skid ~ $ sudo apt-get -yu dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  initscripts sysv-rc
The following packages will be upgraded
  sysvinit
1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/114kB of archives. After unpacking 36.9kB will be freed.
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
sysvinit

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Geordie.