package udev 151-12.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[eaghassi]

Binary package hint: udev

Xubuntu 10.04.1 LTS -- udev 151-12.1 failed on install using update-manager 1:0.134.10.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 2 11:35:42 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D610
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/xhostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
SourcePackage: udev
Title: package udev 151-12.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 0C4708
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd10/02/2005:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD610:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0C4708:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D610
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
 * Is this on a liveCD or installed?
 * If it is installed, is the drive you installed to a USB drive?
 * Were you able to continue after restarting, if this is not a liveCD?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

This is the actual error from the log files:

Setting up udev (151-12.1) ...
udev start/running, process 6099
Removing `local diversion of /sbin/udevadm to /sbin/udevadm.upgrade'
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
gzip: /initrd.img.gz: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[eaghassi (eli-aghassi)]

Hi Martin,

Sorry, I must have missed the first email somehow.

To answer the questions, this was a LiveUSB installation with a persistent
file storage (Casper). Restarting did not help the situation.

A couple of weeks after the problem first presented itself, I looked into
LaunchPad to see if anybody had a workaround for my issue. I resolved the
problem by going to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/557023 and following
the workaround from Gary M. I copied /cdrom/casper/vmlinuz to
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic, which allowed the update to proceed without
issue.

I should have mentioned the workaround when I found it, but I had forgotten
about my bug report. Sorry!

Thank you for all your hard work on Ubuntu.

Eli Aghassi

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:

> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't
> heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested
> information? Thanks!
>
> --
> package udev 151-12.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed
> post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628939
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: udev
>
> Xubuntu 10.04.1 LTS -- udev 151-12.1 failed on install using update-manager
> 1:0.134.10.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: udev 151-12.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Sep 2 11:35:42 2010
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
> MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D610
> PccardctlIdent:
> Socket 0:
> no product info available
> PccardctlStatus:
> Socket 0:
> no card
> ProcCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent
> file=/cdrom/preseed/xhostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz
> splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz
> SourcePackage: udev
> Title: package udev 151-12.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
> installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2005
> dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: A06
> dmi.board.name: 0C4708
> dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.chassis.type: 8
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd10/02/2005:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD610:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0C4708:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: Latitude D610
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>
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[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 557023, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.