package bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[John S. Gruber]

Occured while trying to install wireless driver through jockey onto usb stick.

See also bugs #638192 and #638160.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 14 15:30:47 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
SourcePackage: bcmwl
Title: package bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

This happened when trying to install driver/firmware for Broadcom card. See bugs #638192 and #638160.

This is all happening running from a usb stick made by startup disk creator, the stick has a r-w file of 4GiB.

In fact, I get errors from initramfs whenever I try to install software:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install lighttpd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libterm-readline-perl-perl spawn-fcgi
Suggested packages:
  rrdtool apache2-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libterm-readline-perl-perl lighttpd spawn-fcgi
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 355 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 351kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,303kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe libterm-readline-perl-perl all 1.0303-1 [51.9kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe lighttpd i386 1.4.26-3ubuntu2 [286kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe spawn-fcgi i386 1.6.3-1 [13.4kB]
Fetched 351kB in 16s (21.5kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libterm-readline-perl-perl.
(Reading database ... 130447 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libterm-readline-perl-perl (from .../libterm-readline-perl-perl_1.0303-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package lighttpd.
Unpacking lighttpd (from .../lighttpd_1.4.26-3ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package spawn-fcgi.
Unpacking spawn-fcgi (from .../spawn-fcgi_1.6.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ufw ...
WARN: uid is 0 but '/' is owned by 1000
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.1ubuntu2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5) ...
Removing old bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: bcmwl
Version: 5.60.48.36+bdcom
Kernel: 2.6.35-19-generic (i686)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

wl.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/2.6.35-19-generic/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod......

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.60.48.36+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new bcmwl-5.60.48.36+bdcom DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.35-19-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.35-19-generic
Done.

wl.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
...

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

Just running sudo dpkg --config initramfs-tools:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure initramfs-tools
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.98.1ubuntu2) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
cp: cannot stat `/vmlinuz': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

Root and /boot directories on file system. (embedded on usb thumb drive)

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2379 2010-09-01 10:24 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-09-14 14:32 boot
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 1969-12-31 19:00 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 3620 2010-09-14 14:18 dev
drwxr-xr-x 159 root root 4096 2010-09-14 14:26 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-09-14 10:17 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2010-09-01 10:18 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-19-generic
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 2010-09-01 10:24 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2010-09-14 10:15 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-09-14 11:28 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 2010-08-05 16:31 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 2010-09-01 10:03 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 177 root root 0 2010-09-14 14:17 proc
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 341 2010-09-01 10:18 rofs
drwx------ 6 root root 4096 2010-09-14 13:40 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3769 2010-09-01 10:24 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 2010-05-09 11:54 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 2010-09-01 10:03 srv
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2010-09-14 14:17 sys
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 220 2010-09-14 14:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2010-09-14 11:30 usr
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2010-09-14 13:54 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2010-09-01 10:18 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /boot
total 18889
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 706007 2010-08-29 08:03 abi-2.6.35-19-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128524 2010-08-29 08:03 config-2.6.35-19-generic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-09-14 10:18 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16316960 2010-09-14 14:32 initrd.img-2.6.35-19-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165084 2010-07-05 04:38 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167264 2010-07-05 04:38 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1829499 2010-08-29 08:03 System.map-2.6.35-19-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1192 2010-08-29 08:06 vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-19-generic
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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 571392, 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.