Comment 3 for bug 179497

Hi,

I had a slightly different error message with the same package, mentioning there was a missing quote in /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel

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root@bloom:~# apt-get upgrade nvidia-kernel-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  nvidia-kernel-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/5478B of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 266409 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1ubuntu7 (using .../nvidia-kernel-common_20051028+1ubuntu8_all.deb) ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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/etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel: command substitution: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel: command substitution: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Unpacking replacement nvidia-kernel-common ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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Setting up gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (0.10.7-3ubuntu0.1) ...

Setting up nvidia-kernel-common (20051028+1ubuntu8) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc ...

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* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
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/etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel: command substitution: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel: command substitution: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Setting up vorbis-tools (1.1.1-15ubuntu0.1) ...

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Adding a quote to line 8 of the /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel script (at the end of the awk command) made the apt-get run smoothly. Line 8 becomes:

NVIDIA_CARDS=`/usr/bin/lspci | awk '/nVidia/{print 1}' `

I'm not sure everything is fixed, but at least the adept-manager and apt-get don't die on me anymore. This package had even made my upgrade to Hardy fail. Bloody pain, had to finish it off by hand.

Cheers,

Matthieu