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No Idea update manager is doing lots of updates on new install of Ubuntu 8.10 (note 4th install today and all failed on 2 different computers)

Bug #314182 reported by -- on 2009-01-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #252900: vfat : wubi 8.04.1-rev506 kernel upgrade fails. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	linux (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Becoming very despondent with Ubuntu. Have used Lindows and Linspire for years with no problems but as it is no longer supported I am changing all my computers to Ubuntu. However, after today I may give up.

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
LsUsb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14
ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=4962-5197 loop=/hostname/disks/home/username.disk ro ROOTFLAGS=sync quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-7.14-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14 failed to install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation not permitted

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-- (prvt) wrote on 2009-01-05:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (26.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (220.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
HalComputerInfo.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuInfo.txt Edit (453 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (988 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (4.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-01-05:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. This bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 252900. Please feel free to report any other bugs you find.