"Failed to run depmod", no clear reason why

[Anders L]

ubuntu 9.04

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f5d731b0-5530-4298-a43f-26825f3e9d4d
Lsusb:
 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
MachineType: IBM 2647NG8
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ac9ba1f3-5b2e-41a2-97f1-4c81107462dc ro quiet splash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: linux
Title: package linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.45 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This is pretty thoroughly weird. What's the output when you run these two commands in sequence in a terminal window?

  depmod -a 2.6.28-13-generic
  echo $?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

You'll need to run depmod as root, so:

sudo -i
depmod -a 2.6.28-13-generic
echo $?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Bug 330834 (duplicate of this one) offers a clue: a crash report for /sbin/depmod turned up as well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue seems similar to bug #99547

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I think you're right, Sebastien. Thanks for pointing that out.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

I'm going to go ahead and mark this bug (and all it's duplicates) as a duplicate of bug 99547 which should be resolved as of module-init-tools version 3.10-1 in Karmic. Thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is there any workaround for jaunty users who have upgrades broken due to that one?

[Alex Ng'ang'a (lxnganga)]

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