Comment 16 for bug 189005

i can confirm the bug.
the solution two posts above doesn't work for me either.

Richte linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook ein (2.6.24-mactelmacbook-10.00.Custom) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
 (/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-mactelmacbook) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook.postinst line 583.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
 (/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook) -- doing nothing at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook.postinst line 583.
Running postinst hook script update-grub.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-7-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-5-generic
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-mactel
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.9-mactel
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-mactel
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
User postinst hook script [update-grub] exited with value 1
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook (--configure):
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Richte gnome-accessibility-themes ein (2.21.91-0ubuntu1) ...
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.

Richte gnome-themes ein (2.21.91-0ubuntu1) ...
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.
gtk-update-icon-cache: Cache file created successfully.

Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 linux-image-2.6.24-mactelmacbook
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- otherwise, the kernel installs and works fine, i have it running for approximately 5 days now.