Comment 10 for bug 1002388

Just saw a new linux kernel update and I received the same error as before.

I believe this is now fixed as this is what I did.

TRIED TO INSTALL THE FAILED PACKAGE

david@david-MS-7640:/$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic (3.2.0-24.39) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to symbolic-link /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic to initrd.img: File exists
dpkg: error processing linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 17
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

THE SYMBOLIC LINK IS THERE

david@david-MS-7640:/$ ls
bin cdrom etc initrd.img lib64 media opt root sbin srv tmp var
boot dev home lib lost+found mnt proc run selinux sys usr vmlinuz

MOVED THE SYMLINK TO INITRD.IMG.BAK

david@david-MS-7640:/$ sudo mv initrd.img initrd.img.bak

CONFIRMED MOVE

david@david-MS-7640:/$ ls -al
total 105
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 May 24 13:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 May 24 13:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 01:24 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 May 24 13:43 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 00:20 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4500 May 24 11:46 dev
drwxr-xr-x 140 root root 12288 May 24 13:43 etc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 20 00:32 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 May 22 11:39 initrd.img.bak -> /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 20 01:47 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 00:54 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 20 00:16 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 24 09:06 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 27 14:05 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 20 01:14 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 227 root root 0 May 24 07:46 proc
drwx------ 7 root root 4096 May 20 00:59 root
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 820 May 24 11:46 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 May 23 13:38 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 2 06:01 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 29 23:24 srv
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 May 24 07:46 sys
drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 May 24 13:45 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 20 01:02 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 24 11:46 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 20 01:25 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic

TRIED TO INSTALL THE FAILED PACKAGE AGAIN

david@david-MS-7640:/$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic (3.2.0-24.39) ...
Running depmod.
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(3.2.0-24.38 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms 3.2.0-24-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.2.0-24-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/pm-utils 3.2.0-24-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/update-notifier 3.2.0-24-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.2.0-24-generic /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-17-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /memtest86+.bin
Found Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04) on /dev/sda6
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sdb3
Found Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (12.04) on /dev/sdb5
done

WORKED!