Comment 10 for bug 386042

This problem occured for me on an Intel Pentium III, today during automatic update installation. The installation stopped because I had made changes to my /var/run/grub/menu.lst to eliminate the boot time offer to start:
  Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
  Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic (recovery mode)
...and...
  Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
  Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
...and the package installer wanted to know if it should keep my changes or use the new version. I tried viewing the differences a couple of different ways, and then asked the manager to start a shell so I could look at the situation more carefully. Then I was interrupted, and when I returned after 10 or 15 minutes, the dialog no longer responded and the installer no longer responded. I started a terminal session, found menu.lst, made a backup copy of it, and then went to the terminal window of the installer and entered "exit". That caused the installer to continue to "completion", but resulting in this set of errors:

E: linux-image-2.6.28-16-generic: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-16-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-image-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-restricted-modules-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: linux-generic: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

...and an incomplete installation. So, something is wrong with the updater. If it stops for input, it doesn't properly wait for that input, and might end up doing something it shouldn't do without the input it stopped for.

It'll be interesting to see if I can get the updates properly installed, or at least uninstalled...