immerohnegott
March 5th, 2010, 09:49 PM
Ran a standard dist-upgrade a couple days ago, and apt attempted to install a new kernel (2.6.31-20-generic). The installation failed at dpkg/configure:
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
apparently when attempting to run the GRUB2 config script.
Said script spits an error like "no path or device specified", followed by the whole update process dying without dignity - basically spitting out a bunch of dependency errors because the linux-image .deb couldn't be configured completely.
So, thoughts? I've attempted to purge/reinstall the packages to no avail. Ran dpkg --configure -a. Nothing. As these are kernel/bootloader packs, I'm pretty hesitant to start just going to town on the files until something works (or, with my luck, causes my machine to implode).
For what it's worth, I can still boot just fine into 2.6.31-19 to fix this mess.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
apparently when attempting to run the GRUB2 config script.
Said script spits an error like "no path or device specified", followed by the whole update process dying without dignity - basically spitting out a bunch of dependency errors because the linux-image .deb couldn't be configured completely.
So, thoughts? I've attempted to purge/reinstall the packages to no avail. Ran dpkg --configure -a. Nothing. As these are kernel/bootloader packs, I'm pretty hesitant to start just going to town on the files until something works (or, with my luck, causes my machine to implode).
For what it's worth, I can still boot just fine into 2.6.31-19 to fix this mess.