The steps that Leann posted did not work for me.
Well, the remove and rm -rf did, but the install failed
again with the following.
sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.28-11 linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-doc-2.6.28 linux-source-2.6.28
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/24.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 93.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 120640 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-15-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The steps that Leann posted did not work for me.
Well, the remove and rm -rf did, but the install failed
again with the following.
sudo apt-get install linux-image- 2.6.28- 15-generic headers- 2.6.28- 11 linux-headers- 2.6.28- 11-generic restricted- modules- 2.6.28- 15-generic image-2. 6.28-15- generic d-modules- 2.6.28- 15-generic ... d-modules- 2.6.28- 15-generic (--remove): restricted- modules- 2.6.28- 15-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-doc-2.6.28 linux-source-2.6.28
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/24.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 93.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 120640 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-restricte
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing linux-restricte
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Any ideas?
/Brett