[SOLVED] Upgrade Dependancy Problem

[stuart264]

Can any wise person please offer advice about what I do to fix this error message as I am really stumped as to what is happening and my version of ubuntu refuses to upgrade


stuart@stuart-linux:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for stuart:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic (2.6.27-10.20) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-10-generic
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
expr: non-numeric argument
User postinst hook script [/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 2
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-generic:
linux-image-generic depends on linux-image-2.6.27-10-generic; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.27-10-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-generic:
linux-restricted-modules-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic; however:
Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-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 (= 2.6.27.10.13); however:
Package linux-image-generic is not configured yet.
linux-generic depends on linux-restricted-modules-generic (= 2.6.27.10.13); 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-2.6.27-10-generic
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.27-10-generic
linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
linux-generic

[dstew]

This looks like this bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/193439). It seems that during installation, the grub-set-default program was run without the correct argument, and when update-grub is run during the configuration of your new kernel, the process expr gives an error, because /boot/grub/default is empty.

You can try to fix it by running sudo set-grub-default 0 from a command line. That should create a /boot/grub/default file that sets the first menu item as the default.

[stuart264]

Thanks that fixed it