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Bill Roberts
August 8th, 2008, 10:49 PM
I applied updates after installing Hardy and something failed. Every update since finishes with the following messages:

E: linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-image-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-restricted-modules-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

I have tried re-applying these items using the Synaptic Package Manager, but the result is always the same as above.

What's the next step?

Diabolis
August 8th, 2008, 11:34 PM
Your drive might not have enough free space.

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

Run:

df -H

To see the usage of your drives.

Bill Roberts
August 9th, 2008, 05:55 PM
Here's the output from apt-get autoremove:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (2.6.24-19.36) ...
Internal Error: Could not find image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic)
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic:
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet.
linux-image-generic depends on linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic; however:
Package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic; however:
Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-generic:
linux-generic depends on linux-image-generic (= 2.6.24.19.21); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
linux-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-generic (= 2.6.24.19.21); however:
Package linux-restricted-modules-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
linux-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

and df -H

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 7.5G 531M 6.6G 8% /
varrun 1.1G 111k 1.1G 1% /var/run
udev 1.1G 205k 1.1G 1% /dev
devshm 1.1G 13k 1.1G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 128M 26M 95M 22% /boot
/dev/md3 15G 2.3G 12G 16% /usr
/dev/md4 15G 1.2G 14G 8% /var
/dev/md5 7.5G 151M 7.0G 3% /tmp
/dev/md6 2.2T 364M 2.1T 1% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 7.5G 531M 6.6G 8% /home/xxxxx/.gvfs

Bill Roberts
August 9th, 2008, 06:54 PM
A little more research and I tried apt-get -f upgrade

Problem solved

Diabolis
August 9th, 2008, 07:02 PM
Fix broken packages and try it again.

sudo apt-get install -f install

Diabolis
August 9th, 2008, 07:04 PM
Oh, a bit late.

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