package linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic 2.6.31-16.52 failed to install/upgrade: exit status 2 - cpio: ./sbin/brltty-setup: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

[roger ogden]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

This package was proposed from the update manager on my desktop so I simply tried to install it and it failed for dependency's not being met. lsb_release -rd = Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 5 12:42:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic 2.6.31-16.52
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic 2.6.31-16.52 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[roger ogden (daog75)]

I don't know if I am doing this bug reporting the right or wrong way. If I am doing it wrong and creating extra needless work for somebody please accept my apologies as I am just trying to learn linux and still consider myself a newbie after using Ubuntu since 6.06 Dapper Drake. Seems the more I learn the less I know.

[amin (amin-mahdy)]

I hope some do something about this bug ,
I search the net and try many thing and all didn't solve it
even the dpkg repair from boot menu ,it help installing the package but try
to reinstall it or upgrade it'll return to the same error.

I post my experience here :replay #9
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8454111#post8454111

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The relevant error is
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Setting up linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic (2.6.31-16.52) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
cpio: ./sbin/brltty-setup: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-16-generic
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2