Strange crash while automatic update

[Tero Niemi]

I'm just testing Ubuntu. I have no idea what this is.
Cheers!

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 2.6.27-7.16
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 2.6.27-7.16 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 17

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

Thanks for reporting the bug. Can you please provide more details and possibly a test case to allow developers to replicate the bug (such as a list of commands, procedures, actions that lead to the bug?)

[Tero Niemi (talamus)]

Hello,

As I said, I am currently just testing Ubuntu. I am quite impressed, actually! Even my strange PCMCIA G3 modem works right out of the box. Very good work, everyone!

Here's what I did.

1) Booted Ubuntu 8.10 (Desktop Edition) from a cd.
2) Made a bootable USB by choosing: System > Administration > Create a USB startup disk
3) Booted Ubuntu from the USB (Just pressing enter through the bootup menu, selecting English...)
4) Tested around.
5) Found that the keyboard layout was wrong for me. I have a Finnish keyboard with letters ÅÄÖ.
6) Went to: System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layout
7) Added Finnish keyboard layout, made it default.
8) I Clicked the "Apply Sytem-Wide ..." button. (<- This is probably what caused the error!!!)
9) I decided to update the system: System > Administration > Update Manager
10) The error occured while the update.

I would like to test if this error is repeatable, but I have only one USB-stick, and it now has a compeletly working Ubuntu on it (currently using) and I do not want to lose that... Sorry.

To have a Finnish keyboard layout with English language menus I re-installed the USB-stick and chose the Finnish layout _in the bootup menu_! Everything works now out of the box.

Hope this helps at all.
Thank you for your work!

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

This looks to be a duplicate of bug 292159 so I am marking it as such. It was actually a bug in casper. It should be resolved as of casper version 1.162. Thanks.