package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17

[AdrianChallinor]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Loaded IBIS on to a 4GB usb pen drive . Booted on a Levento T500 laptop. Attempted to installed updated from automatic update installer. Error received when updates were being applied
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.62.1ubuntu10
  Candidate: 0.62.1ubuntu10
  Version table:
 *** 0.62.1ubuntu10 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.15
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-7.14-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

From your log file
=====
Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (2.6.27-7.15) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs is disabled since running on a live CD
Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic to initrd.img.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
=====

You can't upgrade the kernel from a live cd. I'm closing this report
because it is not a bug.

Thanks.

[AdrianChallinor (adrian-challinor)]

Please re-read the bug report. This was NOT a live CD. It was an install
on to a USB memory stick that failed when updating.

I think I know that you can't update a CD-ROM.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Thanks for your report.
>
> >From your log file
> =====
> Setting up linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (2.6.27-7.15) ...
> Running depmod.
> update-initramfs is disabled since running on a live CD
> Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic to initrd.img.
> dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17
> =====
>
> You can't upgrade the kernel from a live cd. I'm closing this report
> because it is not a bug.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
>

[AdrianChallinor (adrian-challinor)]

Please re-read the text of the error report. This was NOT a boot from a live CD. It was booted from a USB Memory stick that was itself created from a Live CD boot.

I think that I know you can't update a CD-ROM.

However, the error that you can't update a USB Memory stick must be considered to be important and critical. Interestingly, the USB Memory stick is now nolonger bootable at all and will have to be rebuilt.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I'm reopening this report due to your last comment regarding this is a memory stick and not a CD. I've grouped similar issues on bug 292159. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.

Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[AdrianChallinor (adrian-challinor)]

Thank you. I am trying to replicate this from an install using alternate
CD without success. I will repeat with Live CD later this week and report.

Interestingly, the USB Memory stick was rendered useless as a boot
device following this.

Adrian

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 292159 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292159
>
> I'm reopening this report due to your last comment regarding this is a
> memory stick and not a CD. I've grouped similar issues on bug 292159.
> Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other
> report.
>
> Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Status: Invalid => Confirmed
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 292159
> update-initramfs is disabled since running on a live CD but it is running from a flash drive.
>
>