apt error not understood

From	ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	apt error not understood
Date	2021-05-22 18:10 +0200
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Buster everywhere, latest update.

I update/upgrade using apt on 3 different computers (SuperMicro desktop, Dell laptop, Raspberry Pi cute thing). Sample from a few minutes ago, on the desktop:

root@sbox:~# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [51.9 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease [46.7 kB]
Fetched 98.6 kB in 2s (52.2 kB/s)
...
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit -.mount is masked.
...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

And all seems to have worked -- when update says there are upgrades available, it asks if I want them, then downloads and installs properly, but the same error message is displayed.  I've been a Debian user for some 15 years, and I've never seen an error from dpkg, apt, apt-get, synaptic, or aptitude.  Until a few weeks ago.  On all my computers, except the 'Pi (also systemd).  I don't know what makes this happen or even what it means (a bent apt update?  a bent systemd update?).

Thoughts?  Howtos?

--
Glenn English


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apt error not understood ghe2001 <ghe2001@pm.me> - 2021-05-22 18:10 +0200
  Re: apt error not understood Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-05-22 19:40 +0200
    Re: apt error not understood ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2021-05-22 21:50 +0200
  Re: apt error not understood Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-22 20:30 +0200
    Re: apt error not understood ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2021-05-22 20:50 +0200

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