Failed to run depmod when trying to set up linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic (2.6.38-11.48)

[Rob Frohne]

frohro@frohro-d830:~$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic (2.6.38-11.48) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic (2.6.38-11.48) ...
Running depmod.
Failed to run depmod
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic 2.6.38-11.48
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: frohro 2767 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6ffc000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9205'
   Components : 'HDA:838476a0,102801fe,00100204 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 11
CheckboxSubmission: b3f7c5231c874165f4d7945857608f87
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Tue Aug 9 18:54:55 2011
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=66e1c3c2-adb4-4036-a791-fdd183e99617
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D830
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=e32a9aab-f506-4471-bb71-4b4e23ec3181 ro splash vga=794 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-11-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-11-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.52.1
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-14 (117 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/04/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A15
dmi.board.name: 0T497J
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA15:bd01/04/2010:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD830:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0T497J:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D830
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Rob Frohne (frohro)]

I ran depmod manually with this result:

frohro@frohro-d830:~$ sudo depmod -a -v 2.6.38-11-generic
frohro@frohro-d830:~$

I don't know if that helps.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Closing this bug with Won't fix as this kernel / release is no longer supported.
Please feel free to open a new bug report if you're still experiencing this on a newer release (Bionic 18.04.3 / Disco 19.04)
Thanks!