package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Aatu Harju]

How it actually crashed was that I chose to open a new shell to investigate the new menu.lst to be installed by debconf and nothing happened, the debconf window started to hang there for ever. (The upgrade process renewed the debconf process though after pressing ctrl+c in the upgrade window console)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LsUsb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:0896 Logitech, Inc. OrbiCam
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25
ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=693dbdb2-5448-4420-bc0d-2fc9c4cf5909 ro profile
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[iamamish (stack-mike)]

I just had something similar happen to me. One of the options for dealing with a modified 'menu.lst' file is to be dropped into a shell to examine the situation. I did that, then wasn't sure what I was supposed to do when I was done. So, I typed 'exit' at the shell prompt when I was done making a backup of my menu.lst file, which caused the error.

When you're dropped into a shell like that, it'd be helpful to display some type of help to tell you what it is you're supposed to do when you're done with the shell that is created for you.

[iamamish (stack-mike)]

Addendum to my previous comment - to be clear, it wasn't making the copy of menu.lst that caused the problem - it was exiting from the shell that I'd been dropped into that seemed to cause the problem. Also, this happened during upgrade to kernel version 2.6.27-12, not -11. I figured the error was similar enough that I'd ride on this particular bug. If I ought to create a new one instead, please let me know.

Thanks.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Aatu,

Sorry for the delayed response to a bug you reported some time ago. Can you comment if this issue remains? Does the update pass if you choose not to view the new menu.lst?

@iamamish, if the issue remains for you could you attach the log files outlined at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUpdateManager#Debugging Procedures . It would be helpful to determine if you indeed have the same bug reported here.

[deus (ahkunkku)]

Hello

I have commented the bug. Thank you for the support.

Aatu Harju

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Leann Ogasawara <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi Aatu,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response to a bug you reported some time ago. Can
> you comment if this issue remains? Does the update pass if you choose
> not to view the new menu.lst?
>
> @iamamish, if the issue remains for you could you attach the log files
> outlined at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingUpdateManager#Debugging
> Procedures . It would be helpful to determine if you indeed have the
> same bug reported here.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> package linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.25 failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322430
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Aatu Harju (a.h.)]

Unfortunate or not, the bug hasn't occured mainly because it was more or less rare type of upgrade demanding answers for those menu.lst questions. That similar upgrade was repeated few days later but I remember choosing another option for the question and it worked well.

[Avi BenEmanuel (benemanuel)]

seems alright anyhow
Linux n-avi 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 20:57:48 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
might be from the menu.lst questions.