Comment 23 for bug 99547

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BrettMckee (brett-mckee) wrote :

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)

Any ideas?

/Brett