Re: Problems w/ Kernels on Hardy

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:58:18PM -0500, chris wrote:
I'm having a bit of an odd issue. I logged on today and saw that there
was an updated kernel. 2.6.24-18.

I went to install it and it error out. After digging turns out my
/boot was full.

So I went to Synaptic and told it to purge -16 kernel. After that, -18
installed fine. After I got -18 running and vmware wkst recompiled. I
went back to Synaptic and told it to purge -17.

Now I'm getting this.


E: linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic: subprocess post-removal
script returned error exit status 1

At the moment when you're seeing this, do you still have
linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic (and -17-generic) installed? From the
error messages it would seem that you don't, but apt shouldn't have
allowed that to happen.

(Reading database ... 113971 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-16-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-17-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-16-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic ...
FATAL: Could not open '/boot/System.map-2.6.24-17-generic': No such
file or directory
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.24-17-generic
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-17-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

Apparently this is breaking my laptop on being able to install new
software. I just tried to install the google-desktop-linux from
Google's repo and it downloads the files... and then attempts to
remove the above stuff and fails and won't install.

So I'm stuck at this point and not really wanting to reinstall my laptop.

Can someone please advise/

You can work around this problem by removing the postrm scripts that
fail and prevent apt from removing these packags. If you're really not
going to use 2.6.24-16 and 2.6.24-17 kernels on this system (without
completely reinstalling them), that should be safe to do:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic.postrm
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic.postrm
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic.postrm
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic.postrm
sudo apt-get remove linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16-generic \
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17-generic \
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-16-generic \
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-17-generic

It would be good if you could file a bug report on http://launchpad.net
describing how you got into this situation, so that Ubuntu could be made
more robust when /boot fills up during a kernel upgrade.

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
--
"In general, it is safe and legal to kill your children and their children"
POSIX Prg Gt, by Donald Lewine, O'Reilly & Associates, 1991, p.110 (On process
termination)
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