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laurentgedm
December 17th, 2010, 05:48 PM
Hello world,

On my system, KPackageKit encounters an error when trying to upgrade from kernel 2.6.35-22 to 2.6.35-23:


subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

What should i do?



edit: can it be due to the size of my /boot partition?


root@lau-linux:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 24G 1.2G 22G 6% /
none 998M 244K 998M 1% /dev
none 1005M 628K 1004M 1% /dev/shm
none 1005M 96K 1005M 1% /var/run
none 1005M 0 1005M 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda1 22G 3.4G 19G 16% /usr
/dev/sda5 37M 27M 8.3M 77% /boot
/dev/sda9 65G 41G 22G 66% /home
/dev/sda6 71G 64G 3.7G 95% /home/Data
/dev/sdb1 917G 96G 775G 11% /home/Media

sikander3786
December 17th, 2010, 05:53 PM
No your root partition shouldn't cause that problem.

We need to see the complete output of this command from your terminal.


sudo apt-get upgrade

laurentgedm
December 17th, 2010, 06:03 PM
lau@lau-linux:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[sudo] password for lau:
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, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic (2.6.35-23.41) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-23-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 141 gzip 1
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-23-generic
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 2.6.35.23.25); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.35-23-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




EDIT:

It looks like a space problem.
I don't know how to solve this.
Can i remove any of those files?



root@lau-linux:/boot# ls -ls
total 25853
689 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 700477 2010-10-17 02:37 abi-2.6.35-22-generic
689 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 700602 2010-11-24 13:46 abi-2.6.35-23-generic
121 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122604 2010-10-17 02:37 config-2.6.35-22-generic
121 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122604 2010-11-24 13:46 config-2.6.35-23-generic
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-10-23 10:16 grub
10782 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10996207 2010-11-15 19:38 initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic
12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2010-10-16 18:51 lost+found
163 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165084 2010-09-24 20:16 memtest86+.bin
165 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167264 2010-09-24 20:16 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
2298 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2342386 2010-10-17 02:37 System.map-2.6.35-22-generic
2298 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2342871 2010-11-24 13:46 System.map-2.6.35-23-generic
2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1335 2010-10-17 02:41 vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-22-generic
2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1336 2010-11-24 13:48 vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-23-generic
4253 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4336016 2010-10-17 02:37 vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic
4254 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4336912 2010-11-24 13:46 vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic

sikander3786
December 17th, 2010, 06:50 PM
Yes now I feel this is causing the problem.


/dev/sda5 37M 27M 8.3M 77% /boot

Why did you create that small partition for /boot? The recommended size is 512 MB at least.

You can remove the older kernels following this guide.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1587462

Remember, it is recommended that you keep at least one older kernel as a backup plan.

rajeeja
December 17th, 2010, 07:12 PM
Hi Guys,

I have the same problem and I cannot boot with any of the kernels. However I can get to the safe mode.

Please let me know how to remove the kernel in command line?


Also, during the upgrade there were some warnings:
...
(gtk-update-icon-cache:2498): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
...

Many thanks,

laurentgedm
December 17th, 2010, 07:19 PM
I removed initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic and it worked afterwards.

sikander3786
December 17th, 2010, 07:26 PM
Hi Guys,

I have the same problem and I cannot boot with any of the kernels. However I can get to the safe mode.

Please let me know how to remove the kernel in command line?


Also, during the upgrade there were some warnings:
...
(gtk-update-icon-cache:2498): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
...

Many thanks,
What do you mean by "cannot boot with any of the kernels"? Any errors, blank screen or what?

Why do you want to remove kernels? I fear that wouldn't solve your problem.

From Grub menu, select Recovery mode > Drop to root shell and try these commands.

Bring up your internet:

dhclient eth0

Where eth0 is your network interface.


sudo dpkg --configure -a


sudo apt-get install -f


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

Reboot:


sudo shutdown -r now


I removed initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic and it worked afterwards.


Glad to know it worked for you :-)

Happy Ubuntu-ing!