dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools:

[Umang_Agrawal]

umang@umang-samsung-NP300-V5A-S0GIN:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
initramfs-tools
The following packages will be upgraded:
initramfs-tools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/49.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
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dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of initramfs-tools:
initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-bin (<< 0.99ubuntu13.3.1~); however:
Version of initramfs-tools-bin on system is 0.99ubuntu13.4.
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic:
linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic depends on initramfs-tools (>= 0.36ubuntu6); however:
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dmsetup:
dmsetup depends on initramfs-tools; however:
Package initramfs-tools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dmsetup (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic; however:
Package linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-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.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 3.2.0.58.69); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdevmapper1.02.1:
libdevmapper1.02.1 depends on dmsetup (>= 2:1.02.48-4ubuntu7.4); however:
Package dmsetup is not configured yet.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: error processing libdevmapper1.02.1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-common:
grub-common depends on libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36); however:
Package libdevmapper1.02.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub2-common:
grub2-common depends on grub-common (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.14); however:
Package grub-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub2-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc-bin:
grub-pc-bin depends on libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36); however:
Package libdevmapper1.02.1 is not configured yet.
grub-pc-bin depends on grub-common (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.14); however:
Package grub-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub-pc-bin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-pc:
grub-pc depends on grub-common; however:
Package grub-common is not configured yet.
grub-pc depends on grub2-common (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.14); however:
Package grub2-common is not configured yet.
grub-pc depends on grub-pc-bin (= 1.99-21ubuntu3.14); however:
Package grub-pc-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdevmapper-event1.02.1:
libdevmapper-event1.02.1 depends on libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.36); however:
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Package libdevmapper1.02.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libdevmapper-event1.02.1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liblvm2app2.2:
liblvm2app2.2 depends on libdevmapper-event1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.20); however:
Package libdevmapper-event1.02.1 is not configured yet.
liblvm2app2.2 depends on libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.44); however:
Package libdevmapper1.02.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing liblvm2app2.2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
linux-image-3.2.0-58-generic
dmsetup
linux-image-generic
linux-generic
libdevmapper1.02.1
grub-common
grub2-common
grub-pc-bin
grub-pc
libdevmapper-event1.02.1
liblvm2app2.2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




Please help

[varunendra]

Welcome to the forums Umang!



initramfs-tools depends on initramfs-tools-bin (<< 0.99ubuntu13.3.1~); however:
Version of initramfs-tools-bin on system is 0.99ubuntu13.4.
The version that dpkg expects is no longer there in the repositories. So let's try manually installing the updated package so it gets over its confusion..

Download the updated package : http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.99ubuntu13.4_all.deb
Assuming the above package is downloaded in your "Downloads" directory, install it with -

sudo dpkg -i Downloads/initramfs-tools_0.99ubuntu13.4_all.deb
Any errors? Post back if there are. If not, try -

sudo apt-get install -f
..again and let us know if the problem got fixed.

[Umang_Agrawal]

umang@umang-samsung-NP300-V5A-S0GIN:~$ sudo dpkg -i Downloads/initramfs-tools_0.99ubuntu13.4_all.deb
[sudo] password for umang:
(Reading database ... 225005 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13.3 (using .../initramfs-tools_0.99ubuntu13.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement initramfs-tools ...
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.99ubuntu13.4) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 changed doc-base file...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-55-generic
/usr/sbin/update-initramfs: 173: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: mv: not found
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
initramfs-tools
umang@umang-samsung-NP300-V5A-S0GIN:~$

[varunendra]

How much disk space you have left? Please show us the output of -

df -h

Also, the output of -

dpkg -l | grep linux-image