Comment 83 for bug 1157643

After an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade on my VPS (Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS - 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64) I'm facing this:

Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 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 procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.4) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing procps (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of udev:
 udev depends on procps; however:
  Package procps is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mountall:
 mountall depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mountall (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 procps
 udev
 mountall
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried different approaches found on the internet regarding this issue but none worked for me.