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

[kbqvist]

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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 -- console-setup/layoutcode=dk
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.

The cause of the failure is :
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

Are you running from a CD or a flash drive ?

[kbqvist (kbqvist)]

Thanks,
I was running from a freshly made flash-drive. I fact, I was in the process
of updating the system, as my first action after booting the newly made
stick (made using the built in facility for doing so in ubuntu)

Kind regards
Karsten

2008/11/3 Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden>

> Thanks for your report.
>
> The cause of the failure is :
> 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
>
>
> Are you running from a CD or a flash drive ?
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> 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
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293297
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> -
>
> 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 -- console-setup/layoutcode=dk
> 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
>

--
Karsten Bruun Qvist
Carit Etlars Vej 22, 1. tv
DK-1814 Frederiksberg C
DENMARK

Phone: [phone]
Email: <email address hidden>

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 292159, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.