Comment 4 for bug 1068845

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote : Re: package linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

<https://launchpadlibrarian.net/120217770/DpkgTerminalLog.txt> says:
"This kernel does not support a non-PAE CPU"

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#Design> says:
"The Linux kernel supports PAE as a build option and most major distributions provide a PAE kernel either as the default or as an option (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ kernels expect PAE)"

It seems the system is trying to upgrade from a non-PAE kernel to a PAE one, in a non-PAE processor.