Comment 3 for bug 311801

what to do now!?

On 2/17/09, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 252900 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252900
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 252900 and 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 in it. Additionally, any further discussion
> regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to
> submit any future bugs you may find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 252900
> vfat : wubi 8.04.1-rev506 kernel upgrade fails
>
> --
> the update procedure had 208 updates, aand crashed part way through.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311801
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (via bug 252900).
>
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I have installed Ubuntu using wubi. while running Windows XP.
> The installer chose my F: drive (a USB hard disk) as it had lots of free
> space. It all seemed to install, but on booting up it stayed in command
> line mode with grub> and wouldn't do anything.
> So I un-installed; and started again but insisted on using drive C:.
> Everything worked fine, and I'm now using Ubuntu.
>
> It was reported that 208 updates were avilable, so I said go ahead. Some
> time later, having downloaded a lot of stuff the installation proceeded, but
> crashed about a quarter of the way through.
>
> However, everything seems to but up OK, except that the error was reported,
> hence this waffle.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: unable to make backup link of
> `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation
> not permitted
> Package: linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14
> ProcCmdLine: User Name=UUID=44CC-5509
> loop=/hostname/disks/home/username.disk ro ROOTFLAGS=sync quiet splash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic
> SourcePackage: linux
> Title: package linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic 2.6.27-7.14 failed to
> install/upgrade: unable to make backup link of
> `./boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic' before installing new version: Operation
> not permitted
>