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package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of './boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin' before installing new version: Operation not permitted

Bug #1730266 reported by Luis Fernando on 2017-11-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #2031420: package memtest86+ 6.20-2 failed to install/upgrade: installed memtest86+ package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	memtest86+ (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

El sistema me marca un problema interno, no me deja actualizar nada, me aparece que no se termino de instalar bien esta actualizacion 16.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: memtest86+ 5.01-3ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 5 15:13:01 2017
ErrorMessage: unable to make backup link of './boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20120718-04:29
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20120718-04:29
SourcePackage: memtest86+
Title: package memtest86+ 4.20-1.1ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of './boot/memtest86+_multiboot.bin' before installing new version: Operation not permitted

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Luis Fernando (14436-1) wrote on 2017-11-06:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (103.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (697 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (98.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (115.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (448.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
HookError_ubuntu.txt Edit (595 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (13.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2021-12-22:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in memtest86+ (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Fantu (fantonifabio) wrote on 2022-02-13:

hi, I saw some different cases where upgrade or dist-upgrade fails for issue/unexpected cases on memtest86+ postinst.
One should be solved in 5.01-4 and 2 was solved in ubuntu patches now merged in recent debian versions (5.31b+dfsg-1 and 5.31b+dfsg-4) and are now all in Jammy version (5.31b+dfsg-4).
I did some upgrade tests with latest version on both debian and ubuntu without issues, but I'm not sure that there will be anymore in any case, especially some rare/particular ones.

Is there someone that already do upgrade to latest version (5.31b+dfsg-4) or dist-upgrade that include upgrade to that version in the process that can tell me is had issues please?
Is there someone that did or will do same upgrade with root on lvm (with/without snapshot) ad other more rare cases that can tell me if upgrade/dist-upgrade was ok please? (in that cases can tell me also if ok and not only failed)

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english