Comment 7 for bug 1768121

Thanks for the heads up on the libssl issue. Much appreciated. It's just sad that this is where we are with the mainline kernel.
Take care.

HH

09.05.2018, 06:50, "Pasi Tarhonen" <email address hidden>:
> This is fixed partly in the the bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1766728 by updating Xenial package
> linux-base to include linux-update-symlinks binary. No fix for Trusty
> available so far, but the Xenial fix seems to working also with Trusty
> by updating linux-base to version 4.5.
>
> Other error with libssl1.1 can be workaround at least by installing PPA
> ppa:ondrej/nginx-mainline. That package contains among the nginx
> binaries also newer version of OpenSSL package (that seems to be)
> required by linux-4.16.4 onwards.
>
> I used both workarounds with my Trusty box and got linux-4.16.7
> installed OK, so far so good...
>
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> Title:
>   Mainline Kernel since 4.16.4 has postinstall script error
>
> Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Hello,
>
>   I don't know who does the packaging for the Mainline
>   Kernel(http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/), but it has
>   been erroring out in packaging and also for the packages in x64/32
>   that have made it, there are post install script errors within the
>   packaging which disallow installation of the kernel. Tested on Ubuntu
>   16.04.
>
>   Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-4.16.6-041606.
>   (Reading database ... 392264 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to unpack linux-headers-4.16.6-041606_4.16.6-041606.201804300418_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking linux-headers-4.16.6-041606 (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic.
>   Preparing to unpack linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic_4.16.6-041606.201804300418_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic.
>   Preparing to unpack linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic_4.16.6-041606.201804300418_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-4.16.6-041606-generic.
>   Preparing to unpack linux-modules-4.16.6-041606-generic_4.16.6-041606.201804300418_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking linux-modules-4.16.6-041606-generic (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   Setting up linux-headers-4.16.6-041606 (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic:
>    linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic depends on libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0); however:
>     Package libssl1.1 is not installed.
>
>   dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic (--install):
>    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>   Setting up linux-modules-4.16.6-041606-generic (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   Setting up linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic (4.16.6-041606.201804300418) ...
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic.postinst: 50: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic.postinst: linux-update-symlinks: not found
>   dpkg: error processing package linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic (--install):
>    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    linux-headers-4.16.6-041606-generic
>    linux-image-unsigned-4.16.6-041606-generic
>
>   What's new in 4.16.6 is the libssl1.1 dependency, as it just errored
>   out with a half installed kernel and that post-installation script
>   error you see above. Please let whoever packages these kernels know
>   that is't been dead stick post 4.16.3. Thanks.
>
>   HH
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