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linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 package

package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic 2.6.24-21.32 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #289775 reported by sebastian-s on 2008-10-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24 (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I ws given the notice that I have a package problem. during the last few days I noticed that the configuration of package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic 2.6.24-21.32 failed but when I looked in synaptic there was no broken package. so I left it and was hoping it will fix itself with the next update

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 27 19:31:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic 2.6.24-21.32
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24
Title: package linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic 2.6.24-21.32 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

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sebastian-s (sebastian-s) wrote on 2008-10-27:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (33.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2008-10-27:

Thanks for your report.

From your log file the error is:
=====
Setting up linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic (2.6.24-21.32) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic

gzip: stdout: No space left on device
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic
dpkg: error processing linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
=====

It seems that there's no space left on device. Can you free some space an retry.

I'm closing this report, but feel free to reopen if it's still an issue and you think this is not related to free space.

Thanks.

Changed in linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24:
status:	New → Invalid

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sebastian-s (sebastian-s) wrote on 2008-10-27:

Thank you Jean,
I think that solved it.
So here for the ones having similar issues...

after a quick search on how I could free some memory I ran 'sudo apt-get autoclean' and had a look in synaptic at my old kernels - search for linux in package names. Simply by removing the old kernels I could free 500MB+

(tip came from here http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-357932.html )