the update procedure had 208 updates, aand crashed part way through.

[John.O'Keefe]

I have installed Ubuntu using wubi. while running Windows XP.
The installer chose my F: drive (a USB hard disk) as it had lots of free space. It all seemed to install, but on booting up it stayed in command line mode with grub> and wouldn't do anything.
So I un-installed; and started again but insisted on using drive C:. Everything worked fine, and I'm now using Ubuntu.

It was reported that 208 updates were avilable, so I said go ahead. Some time later, having downloaded a lot of stuff the installation proceeded, but crashed about a quarter of the way through.

However, everything seems to but up OK, except that the error was reported, hence this waffle.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: unable to make backup link of `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14
ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=44CC-5509 loop=/hostname/disks/home/username.disk ro ROOTFLAGS=sync quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14 failed to install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation not permitted

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 252900 and 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 in it. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

[fred (fritz5fritz)]

what to do now!?

On 2/17/09, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252900 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252900
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 252900 and 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 in it. Additionally, any further discussion
> regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to
> submit any future bugs you may find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 252900
> vfat : wubi 8.04.1-rev506 kernel upgrade fails
>
> --
> the update procedure had 208 updates, aand crashed part way through.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311801
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (via bug 252900).
>
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I have installed Ubuntu using wubi. while running Windows XP.
> The installer chose my F: drive (a USB hard disk) as it had lots of free
> space. It all seemed to install, but on booting up it stayed in command
> line mode with grub> and wouldn't do anything.
> So I un-installed; and started again but insisted on using drive C:.
> Everything worked fine, and I'm now using Ubuntu.
>
> It was reported that 208 updates were avilable, so I said go ahead. Some
> time later, having downloaded a lot of stuff the installation proceeded, but
> crashed about a quarter of the way through.
>
> However, everything seems to but up OK, except that the error was reported,
> hence this waffle.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: unable to make backup link of
> `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation
> not permitted
> Package: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14
> ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=44CC-5509
> loop=/hostname/disks/home/username.disk ro ROOTFLAGS=sync quiet splash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic
> SourcePackage: linux
> Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14 failed to
> install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of
> `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation
> not permitted
>