Trusty kernel 3.12.0-4-generic got errors during installation

**Cavsfan** · November 23rd, 2013

I got kernel 3.12.0-4-generic in an update today and it got some errors that I can't remember off hand. But now everything looks weird.
All the icons are just red x's and the cairo dock icons are blue question marks. Even though I had only 2 kernels installed it was telling me to apt-get autoremove the 3.12.0-3-generic files.

I even tried sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-3.12.0-3 linux-headers-3.12.0-3-generic linux-image-3.12.0-3-generic linux-image-extra-3.12.0-3-generic and then
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.12.0-3 linux-headers-3.12.0-3-generic linux-image-3.12.0-3-generic linux-image-extra-3.12.0-3-generic.
That seemed to go well so I purged and then readded the 3.12.0-4-generic kernel and got the same errors.
Of course I had to install linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic along with the 4 3.12.0-4-generic files. But, my background is just a solid blue and the icons are all messed up.

Any one else have this issue?

PS. Ironically the cube still rotates.

I've been in Flashback the whole time.

**mc4man** · November 24th, 2013

There was a known error with 3.8 - 3.9 so maybe that was also trying to upgrade at same time as 4.10 (3.12.0-4-generic #10
In any event 4.10 is fine here & 3.8 can be removed

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · November 24th, 2013

when i did my updates today on my virtual machiene the 3.12.0-3 gave a error and the 3.12.0-4 worked fine i removed the old kernels (recover disk space) and the 3.12.0-4 kernel booted fine

**Cavsfan** · November 24th, 2013

I booted into the 3.12.0-3 kernel and the same thing.
So I purged and re-installed it and this is the error that it was getting.

Code:

Setting up linux-image-extra-3.12.0-3-generic (3.12.0-3.9) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: deferring update (hook will be called later)
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-3.12.0-3-generic
) points to /boot/initrd.img-3.12.0-3-generic
 (/boot/initrd.img-3.12.0-3-generic) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.12.0-3-generic.postinst line 491.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
 (/boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-extra-3.12.0-3-generic.postinst line 491.
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.12.0-3-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.12.0-3-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.12.0-3-generic

Going to try a reboot.

**anca-emanuel** · November 24th, 2013

I got the same problem with icons.
I reinstalled ubuntu 14.04 and after sudo apt-get upgrade, got the same error message. This time I got to work,
sudo gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache

after searching the internet, chmod the file, installing some package, the command above finally worked.

**philinux** · November 24th, 2013

Same with 3.12.0-3 and 3.12.0-4 purged both for now.

**Cavsfan** · November 24th, 2013

I gave up and had to perforn a clean install to fix it. I got an ISO that was created at 7 something this morning. it came with 3.12.0-4-generic kernel installed and I installed Nvidia driver 331.20.

The extra repository was already commented out which was sweet but I still had to enable partners. I'm in Gnome Flashback with effects, compiz and got the cube rotating. So, for now everything is looking pretty sweet.
After installation there was just one file in the updates.