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So today I ran into a bunch of errors while using the sudo command on my Chromebook with Linux installed. For example when I try to remove my Google Chrome beta application, I tried this:

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-beta

but I got this error:

(Reading database ... 81090 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing google-chrome-beta (74.0.3729.75-1) ...
Setting up 389-admin (1.1.43-1+b1) ...
Job for dirsrv-admin.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status dirsrv-admin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript dirsrv-admin, action "start" failed.
● dirsrv-admin.service - 389 Administration Server.
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dirsrv-admin.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-04-11 17:08:08 UTC; 39ms ago
 Process: 7507 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -f /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/httpd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin systemd[1]: Starting 389 Administration Server....
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin apache2[7507]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified doma… message
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin apache2[7507]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/dirsrv/…rror log
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin apache2[7507]: AH00014: Configuration check failed
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin systemd[1]: Failed to start 389 Administration Server..
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 11 17:08:08 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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dpkg: error processing package 389-admin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 389-ds-console:
 389-ds-console depends on 389-admin; however:
 Package 389-admin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package 389-ds-console (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 389-admin
 389-ds-console
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I even get that when I try updating my packages, like

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

any suggestions?

PS: I do not want to remove Chrome-beta, that is not my question. it is the error I'm trying to solve, because I get it when I try updating.

Another thing: when I type apt-get install -f this shows:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

So I type: sudo apt-get install -f and this shows:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
 389-ds-console-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up 389-admin (1.1.43-1+b1) ...
Job for dirsrv-admin.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status dirsrv-admin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript dirsrv-admin, action "start" failed.
● dirsrv-admin.service - 389 Administration Server.
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dirsrv-admin.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-04-11 19:39:39 UTC; 46ms ago
 Process: 17449 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -f /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/httpd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 11 19:39:38 penguin systemd[1]: Starting 389 Administration Server....
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin apache2[17449]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified dom… message
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin apache2[17449]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/dirsrv…rror log
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin apache2[17449]: AH00014: Configuration check failed
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin systemd[1]: Failed to start 389 Administration Server..
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 11 19:39:39 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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dpkg: error processing package 389-admin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 389-admin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

then I tried sudo dpkg --force-depends --configure 389-admin
and it outputs:

Setting up 389-admin (1.1.43-1+b1) ...
Job for dirsrv-admin.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status dirsrv-admin.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript dirsrv-admin, action "start" failed.
● dirsrv-admin.service - 389 Administration Server.
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dirsrv-admin.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-04-11 19:41:11 UTC; 43ms ago
 Process: 17507 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -f /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/httpd.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin systemd[1]: Starting 389 Administration Server....
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin apache2[17507]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified dom… message
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin apache2[17507]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/dirsrv…rror log
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin apache2[17507]: AH00014: Configuration check failed
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin systemd[1]: Failed to start 389 Administration Server..
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Unit entered failed state.
Apr 11 19:41:11 penguin systemd[1]: dirsrv-admin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package 389-admin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 389-admin

I also noticed that every time I run a command like install, remove, upgrade it does what it's supposed to do, but then it tries to setup 389-admin.

You can reconfigure the package installation like this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure 389-admin

And afterwards run back the uninstallation:

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-beta

Alternatively, you can just remove it directly before uninstalling google-chrome-beta:

sudo dpkg -r 389-admin

sudo is working fine, that only tells the system to run apt-get as the superuser account (which it's doing). Your main issue is with a broken package installation (389-admin), which looks to be failing because there's a missing folder on the system that's preventing apache2 from running, apt can't continue until that package installation finishes. If you follow the instructions Paradox mentioned you should be able to correct the issue, but if it persists then you should look at what other packages are failing to install. Pay close attention to the error messages you're getting since they describe exactly what the problem is

dpkg: error processing package 389-admin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 389-ds-console:
 389-ds-console depends on 389-admin; however:
 Package 389-admin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package 389-ds-console (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 389-admin
 389-ds-console

I don't have enough points to comment on the other answer yet, but based on your comment thread you need to remove or fix your broken packages (the easy route is just remove, so run sudo apt-get remove 389-ds-console)

As I said in my answer, look at the error messages you're getting, they're telling you exactly what is wrong and what you need to do.